Shiler Sido was born in Afrin, in the olive-covered hills of northern Syria, where 95 percent of her neighbors were Kurdish, and a fragile experiment in pluralism briefly took root. Then came 2018, Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch, and what she describes not as counter-terrorism but as demographic engineering: 18 million olive trees felled, 10,000 homes…

Israel has betrayed the very values that made the Jewish people the world’s conscience for millennia—values forged in our own persecution, meant to bind us forever to the defense of the persecuted. Instead, from the occupation of 1967 to the genocide now consuming Gaza and Israel’s inhumane crimes against the Palestinian people in the West…

Authors: Dr. Wioletta Rebecka, Alain Bayongwa, Aline, Anita Bizimana Espérance, Aziza Aimerance, Bulonza, Bahati Balingene, Charline Kihuo, Diane Kahindo Feza, Esther Faida Feza Josephine, Furaha Joyeuse, MunYerekana Kahiro Collette, Nabintu Angela Nabintu Mulume Josline, Naomi Sharon, Noella Sekola Esther, Nshobole Muderhwa Pascaline, Plamedi Mapendo Marie, Sanganire Anne Marie, Sarah Chance / Bénédicte, Sintia Chance Solange,…

By Caroline Ewing and Anne Speckhard Caroline Ewing, Research Fellow, International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism Anne Speckhard, Director, International Center for the Study of Violence Extremism Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Caroling Ewing Email: CarolineAnnaEwing@Gmail.Com Phone: (301) 655-6508 Introduction The rapid evolution of online extremist ecosystems has vastly shifted…

1. Introduction and Background of the Issue The humanitarian crisis in America is not hidden. It is visible in tents under bridges, the mentally ill cycling through jails, rural hospitals struggling to survive, migrants dying in borderlands, families losing access to care, and citizens who no longer know which level of government is responsible when…

More than a decade after ISIS’s genocide against the Yazidi people, Iraq has begun compensating Yazidi survivors. But justice requires far more than financial support. Introduction On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as ISIL or Da’esh) launched a coordinated attack on the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, home to much of…

Summary In a world that proclaims human rights as universal, what does it mean that entire peoples are rendered legally nonexistent—human beings for whom, as Hannah Arendt put it, “no law exists”? This essay turns to Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s philosophy of recognition to argue that the Rohingya are not only victims of a humanitarian disaster,…

Introduction One of history’s most troubling paradoxes concerns the Jewish people. For nearly two thousand years, Jews experienced persecution, expulsions, pogroms, discrimination, and ultimately the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered. Yet within a few decades of establishing Israel, many observers came to view the Jewish state as responsible for the dispossession, occupation,…

For the past year the author of this article has, with a Canadian colleague, been deeply involved in an unofficial (“Track II”) diplomatic effort to create a solid foundation for successful Israel-Lebanon direct talks. We are doing our best to facilitate negotiations aimed at permanently ending 78 years of hostilities and instituting close, bilateral security…