There are, it seems to me, two distinct kinds of horizon that anyone considering the effects of Covid-19 on global politics and society needs to look at.
Triple Jeopardy: Refugees/Migrants/ Palestinian Prisoners
Recently reflecting on the plight of refugees fleeing war zones in the Middle East and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Central America I was struck by the analogy to ‘double jeopardy.’
World Order and the COVID-19 pandemic
Given the urbanization and social complexity accompanying modernity, the need for intelligent, imaginative, and humane governance is a necessity in times of societal crisis, and its absence magnifies suffering.
Commonsense on Syria series continues challenging conversations
Just World Educational’s Commonsense on Syria project continues to spark fascinating discussions and engaged responses from a growing group of attendees and participants.
Lament for a leaderless world
Who speaks for Humanity? Each nation for itself, everyone alone isolated. Yet, COVID19 may be just the shock Humanity needed to exit a leaderless world, badly managed…
In Time of Pandemic, Praise for the UN
In recent years, the UN has seemed weak, almost irrelevant to many of the most disturbing global developments.
“Commonsense on Syria” series opens with a strong start
Just World Educational’s Commonsense on Syria project is off to a powerful start, with the first online Zoom webinar taking place on March 25, followed by the second on March 28.
Richard Falk’s amicus brief to the International Criminal Court
Richard Falk, Just World Educational Board Member and international law scholar, filed an amicus curiae brief with the International Criminal Court on March 16, 2020.
JWE’s webinar series on Syria, March 25 – April 25
(This information has been updated as of April 24, 2020, at Noon ET.) Between March 25 and April 22, 2020 we presented a web-based educational program, “Commonsense on Syria.” This …
Two big powers arm-wrestle in Syria. Neither one is the United States.
It is just as well that, when he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin March 5, Turkey’s President Rejep Tayyip Erdogan did not look up to his right. If he had, he would have seen towering over him a lofty statue of Russia’s Catherine the Great, who in the 18th century sheared Erdogan’s Ottoman forebears of much of their European territory and many of their rights in the shared Black Sea.