Tag: Civil Society
120 Articles
- Conflict & Security
Unfinished Business: Biafran Activism in Nigeria Today
In the late 1960s, Africa’s most populous country, Nigeria, nearly disintegrated when its eastern region broke away as the Republic of Biafra. After two and a half devastating…
April 7, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
The View of the Coup from the Camp: Myanmar’s Emergent Trans-Ethnic Solidarity
https://twitter.com/Natrani/status/1360993418445524999 The current protests also represent a rupture with past protest movements in Myanmar. The protesters’ spontaneous pivot…
March 17, 2021
- Dialogues
Daniel Byman on Addressing White Supremacy
GJIA: We have seen white supremacist threats in the past, but in light of the Capitol riots, extremism seems to have garnered much greater concern in the United States and. …
March 6, 2021
- Society & Culture
An International Perspective on Observing US Elections
The Role of Election Observers Election observation can play an important role in promoting transparency and accountability during an electoral process by providing independent…
March 3, 2021
- Science & Technology
PART II: Energy Infrastructure and the Epistemological Pillars of Peace
Governance The Palestinian National Policy Agenda: 2017-2022 is subtitled “Putting Citizens First.” Putting the well-being of its citizenry first is not only a sound…
March 1, 2021
- Science & Technology
PART I: Energy Infrastructure and the Epistemological Pillars of Peace
A Bigger Problem Dwight Eisenhower reportedly said, “Whenever I run into a problem I can’t solve, I make it bigger.” With this in mind, it may be the case that the…
February 22, 2021
- Conflict & Security
In 2020, Peru Became a Tinderbox
For the first nineteen years of the twenty-first century, Peru was a Latin American success story. Economic growth was rapid; poverty and inequality declined; democracy was…
February 19, 2021
- Conflict & Security
“Police Do Not Protect Me, My Female Friends Do”: Police Repression against Feminists in Mexico
The hashtag “la policía no me cuida, me cuidan mis amigas” has spread widely and rapidly across Mexico and Latin America. As in Latin America, Mexican feminists have used…
February 17, 2021
- Society & Culture
Clandestine No More: Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion in Argentina
For nearly a century, abortion in Argentina was defined as a crime except under very limited circumstances. This was expected to change in December 2020. After two lengthy…
February 16, 2021
- Dialogues
Professor Cherian George on Hate Propaganda and Democracy
GJIA: In your book Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy, you show that the term ‘hate speech’ insufficiently describes the use of…
February 11, 2021