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Divorce has, once again, become a symbol of failure for many American couples signifying yet another cultural shift in "Gen X's" relationship response to their parents.
The Afghan government has proposed a law that would grant amnesty to Taliban fighters, but has has not made public details of the legislation, including who would be eligible for the amnesty, what crimes might be excluded, and what Taliban members would have to do to be eligible for the amnesty. The ambiguity and lack of clarity has generated a lot of debate, and mostly fear, of losing what was gained in the last eight years among ordinary Afghans, especially women.
Violent conflict between Christians and Muslims erupted once again in Dogo Na Hawa, Nigeria. This New York Times article describes this as a 'particularly brutal massacre.' While this particular incident has ended, the underlying religious struggle shows no sign of transformation.
Conflict is an inherent and legitimate part of social and political life, but in many places conflict turns violent, inflicting grave costs in terms of lost lives, degraded governance, and destroyed livelihoods. Religion is often viewed as a motive for conflict and has emerged as a key component in many current and past conflicts. However, religion does not always drive violence; it is also an integral factor in the peacebuilding and reconciliation process. This Toolkit is intended to help USAID staff and their implementing partners understand the opportunities and challenges inherent to development programming in conflicts where religion is a key component.
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs has produced reports on case studies of violence occurring all over the world. The publications address underlying causes and how they interact to lead to violence.
Central to indigenous traditions is an awareness of the integral and whole relationship of symbolic and material life. This page provides an introduction to indigenous religions and their relationship with ecology.
This article discusses the Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant in Pittsburgh that will rotate food from nations that the US has conflict with.
This article looks at how religion, which is often at the center of conflict, played a constructive role in the events of the late 1980s and early 1990s by helping facilitate peaceful transitions from authoritarian, closed societies to relatively democratic, open ones.
A multicultural socio-environmental project that is framed in the ideas of education for sustainability brought together Jew and Arab students was investigated to
identify the participants' views of the program’s objectives and their accomplishments. We investigated the project’s strengths and weaknesses according to the participants’ views and the way culturally diverse students addressed the main local socio-environmental conflict related to conservation versus development of a local creek.
