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What hope for peace in the Middle East?
(7 minutes) Firas Modad argues that the religious underpinning of Jewish and Muslim positions in the current conflict in Palestine and Lebanon makes peace a very distant prospect. But still there is hope.
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Dangers and opportunities: the role of religion in the Israel-Hamas war
(5 minutes) The leader of Singapore's Muslims, Nazirudin Mohd Nasir, argues that religion does not have to cause war: it could be used to end the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Islam vs Islamism
(6 minutes) How liberalism invented Islamism to avoid addressing the most natural facet of human history: religious conflict. By Firas Modad.
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Blessing the guns
(5 minute read) Maddy Fry looks at the often grizzly outcomes of an incestuous relationship between church and state.
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What future for child soldiers?
(5 minute read) Adrien Seewald examines the heartbreaking plight of children forced to fight.
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Extremes of forgiveness
(4 minute read) Abaigael Lorge says only heroic acts of reconciliation can truly heal traumatised and brutalised societies.
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The Korean Lesson
(4 minute read) ByeongKyu Jun says using television is the secret to reuniting families displaced by war.
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The destruction of Palmyra and the rebirth of Syria
(5 minute read) War-scarred communities must embrace again the precious symbols of their identity, argues Greta Ghiringhelli.
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Healing Colombia’s conflict through art
(6 minute read) “Art remains a powerful yet underutilized tool for peace and social cohesion in the post-conflict setting,” argues Clare McMullen.
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Clashes in the Caucasus
(6 minute read) Maddy Fry explores the role of religion in Nagorno-Karabakh, a forgotten corner of the Old Continent where violent tensions run deep.
