Countries adapted to celebrating their religious, racial, ethnic, and linguist diversity are typically stable and prosperous and face fewer domestic and external threats. But states obsessed with imposing a militarized uniformity on their diverse societies are prone to instability, secessionism,…
Month: September 2017
The U.N. Needs A Peacekeeping Force, Not Just Words, To Protect Myanmar’s Rohingya by Farahnaz Ispahani
As reports of atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state pour in, one thing is clear: The international community needs to respond more robustly. The United Nations refugee agency has reported that more than a quarter of the…
‘A Champion of Minorities’ A review of Farahnaz Ispahani’s book by Ambassador Akbar S. Ahmed
On Easter Sunday last year a Taliban suicide bomber detonated ten kilograms of explosives and metal ball bearings in a park full of Pakistani Christian families in Lahore, killing 73. The bomber had chosen a spot between two children's rides.…
