US measures weaken the slow but sure growth of world law
President Donald Trump’s executive order of 11 June 2020 proposing sanctions against staff and family members of the International Criminal Court weakens the slow but... Read More
Pathology or opportunity?
The Bosnian Serb Commission on Srebrenica may well produce the usual ethnic-driven propaganda. It does not have to. By David B. Kanin An announcement... Read More
The pandemic underlines America’s ingrained racism
I wish to see tens of millions of Americans demonstrate peacefully day in and day out and send a clear message to this corrupt Trump... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #5: International Healthcare Co-operation
This is the fifth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
A portrait of a ruthless dictator
Erdogan, to be sure, has shown the capacity and the will to do whatever it takes, regardless of how immoral it might be, to realize... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #4: Crime, War and Terror
This is the fourth in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Israel and Palestinians: architects of their own destruction
If Israel proceeds with its plans of annexation and the Palestinians continue to hold onto their dead-end position, the result is all but certain. Continuing... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #3: the Growth of Government
This is the third in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #2: Hospitality and Real Estate
This is the second in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Society after Coronavirus essay #1: Transport
This is the first in a series of essays exploring the economic, social and cultural effects upon the daily lives of persons living in the... Read More
Pandemic and patronage
Our social retreat enables trust-based networks while further weakening faltering political institutions in the Balkans and elsewhere.
Trump is the antithesis of American greatness
In at least 10 areas, Trump has inflicted a severe injury on the American public, on the country as a whole, and on America’s reputation... Read More
Humanity – language, conflict, and violence – part three
If something repeatable within a human relationship precedes the outbreak of violence, what is it exactly? Viewed with a cold eye, the violence creating conditions... Read More
Humanity – language, conflict, and violence – part two
If something repeatable within a human relationship precedes the outbreak of violence, what is it exactly? Viewed with a cold eye, the violence creating conditions... Read More
Unlocking Europe
Covid-19 is not nearly as deadly as the other pandemic diseases, such as the Spanish ‘flu or the Bubonic Plague, that have periodically swept the... Read More
Humanity – language, conflict, and violence – part one
If something repeatable within a human relationship precedes the outbreak of violence, what is it exactly? Viewed with a cold eye, the violence creating conditions... Read More
Education for global citizenship
Education for Global Citizenship is part of a long-term process to build the defenses of peace in the minds of women and men. The Constitution... Read More
Not letting a good crisis go to waste – threats to human rights and the rule of law in Sri Lanka amid the coronavirus pandemic
It is abundantly clear that many of those in power around the world, including in Sri Lanka, are intent on ‘not letting a good crisis... Read More
The war in Yemen is a crime against humanity and Islam
It is time for the Saudi Arabia, the custodian of Sunni Islam, to stop making a mockery of the religion of the state, at the... Read More
Coronavirus and narcotics – geopolitical comparison
One way of stamping upon the scourge of drugs, and the deaths they cause, would be indefinitely to lock everyone in their homes so they... Read More
Trump’s pandemic failure – a missed opportunity
The problem with Trump though is his obsession with himself, which blinds him from seeing the larger picture. Trump’s ignorance prevented him from realizing that... Read More
After the plague
The post-capitalist world that may await us, should we delay resurrection of our ordinarily functioning society, may not at all be to our liking. We... Read More
The United Nations at 75 – due for a rewrite?
The increasing frustration of the west with the United Nations will surely spell the organisation’s downfall unless it adapts to what its three western permanent... Read More
Freedom of religion in Sri Lanka – four things we learned from a recent report by a UN expert
As Sri Lanka’s new government seeks to reinforce its mandate at upcoming parliamentary elections – most likely with another narrow and nationalistic pitch aimed at... Read More
The lamp of liberty in an age of crisis
We must overcome our fear of disease now, notwithstanding the medical uncertainties, and take a cold hard look at what the collective realisation of our... Read More