“Education is a human right imperative, a development imperative and a peace imperative. The global learning crisis violates human rights, undermines social cohesion, threatens stability and creates a lost generation that cannot join in the lives of their societies.” – Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2014) Introduction Today, Sustainable Development […]
“Understanding Wahhabism”: From Radicalisation to Global Jihad
Introduction Radicalisation plays an important role especially during the discussion of global jihad, however, its emergence is not discussed quiet frequently thus, making this important issue ignored. The word “Wahhabism” rings in countries sharing the borders of the Ferghana Valley, the Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Chechnya, and the Russian Republic of Dagestan. Fundamentalism or “Wahhabism”, […]
“Addressing slavery in 21st century”: It’s time to take child trafficking seriously
Introduction Child trafficking can be traced back to the early 1400s, when the European salve market began in Africa. One of the main reason behind child trafficking is cheap labour. Today, child labour is the vicious image of slavery in the 21st century and its elimination is seen as matter of urgency throughout the world […]
“The Fate that Hangs”: 2015 Elections in Myanmar
Introduction – Myanmar in brief The Republic of the Union of Myanmar or Myanmar (historically known as Burma), is a unitary presidential constitutional republic under its 2008 constitution. Historically, Burma has been under the rule of many dynasties. Originally, Burma was colonised by British and it came under the British raj in 1937. Till then […]
SUDAN: From Bread Basket to Failed State
The Article 34 of the United Nations Charter of the Security Council states “it may investigate any dispute or any situation which might lead to international friction or give rise to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and […]
Preventing Insurgencies and Coup’s
Background When we look back in the human history, beyond war and conquest we see a basic human tendency. We see the tendency to overthrow a regime of a country and establish oneself to power. Events like these take a violent form or sometimes become nonviolent, but they can carry any course of form. Instances […]