BY DORTHE POSSING A report, “Being a Muslim woman in Denmark,” published in March 2009 and commissioned by the former Danish Minister for Gender Equality, Karen Jespersen, concluded that the circulation of “Islamist” discourses on the Internet and Arabic satellite-TV put young Danish Muslim women’s notions of equality and citizenship at risk. The logic was [...]
BY DEBRA BERGOFFEN Just war theory, developed to deal with anarchy, insists that the breakdown of international order be addressed by appealing to the principles of justice rather than those of tyranny. However, the theory questions the relationship between peace and justice, and invites discussions of the ways in which injustice threatens the possibilities of [...]
BY LINDSAY IRVINE When Yetounde was but seven days old, Mandibou villagers sacrificed her to the fears and superstitions of the past; after only seven days of life, she became a victim of ritualized female circumcision. Had it not been for the intervention of a French missionary, Father Benoit, the dangerous procedure would have claimed [...]
BY BHAVANI ARABANDI India has gone through many transformations since its independence from British colonization in 1947. Significant among them has been a change in economic policies. Initially, India promoted a mixed economy: an uneasy combination of Soviet-styled socialism and Gandhi’s dream of self-sufficiency. Nascent industries were protected by the state, and foreign competition was [...]