Results for tag:religious violence
Religious identity and the Refugee Crisis
Date: | 20 June 2016 |
Author: | Religion Factor |
Today, 20 June, is World Refugee Day. The UNHCR released its annual Global Trends Report. For the first time in the organisation’s history, global displacement has crossed the 60 million threshold, with a total of 65.3 million people displaced in 2015. That’s 24 people every minute, or 1 in every 113 people.
The struggle for justice of Dutch young Muslims in Syria
Date: | 06 January 2014 |
Author: | S Klein Schaarsberg |
“I am powerless. (…) Please do something. Do not forsake me and all the other mothers”. 18-year-old Robin converted to Islam one and a half years ago.
Securitizing Religious Violence: the Cases of Mali and Syria – Part One
Date: | 07 March 2013 |
Yesterday French President Francois Hollande announced that French troops will begin withdrawing from Mali in April, instead of March, as originally planned. Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg explores how religion, particularly religious violence, has been...