Healthcare reform is now the ticket of the November presidential elections. While US progressives can agree on universal health insurance, they vehemently disagree on its rhetoric. Why do they invalidate their own desires? Here’s how… [Read more]
Peace & Conflict
This section is a platform for interdisciplinary discourse on global peace and conflict, united in the endeavour to discuss possible solutions to pressing security problems.
Humanity for Sale: Europe’s Deadly Migration Policy
By sealing off its borders and inhumanely detaining migrants at secret locations through extrajudicial means, Europe has compromised its values and adherence to international law. Is this the EU’s last chance to respond with compassion… [Read more]
Transnational Sister Solidarity? How Covid-19 Sheds Light on the Invisible 99%
Covid-19 has indiscriminately shed light on the most vulnerable, undervalued, and underpaid of our society: migrant women working in the care sector. A new regime of inequality is observed at home, one between women –… [Read more]
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act – Part II: The Protests
This is the second part of a three-part series about India’s Citizenship Amendment Act. In this article, we talk about the rise of student protests in response to the Act. More than ninety days have… [Read more]
Reflections on the State-Led System: How China has coped with the COVID-19 outbreak
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) dies down in Wuhan and gains tide outside of China, discussions on what the Chinese government (CCP) has done right to curb the spread on its territory have grown. As a… [Read more]
The Path from “Peace Deals” to Peace in Afghanistan
The Doha peace agreement between the USA and the Taliban is an important opportunity to end the devastating war in Afghanistan; however, the hardest part will be the intra-Afghan negotiations determining the political system, the… [Read more]
“US Wahlen 2020”: From the United States into Your Ears – Podcast
Fabian Masarwa (MPP 2020) und Moritz Czygan (MPP 2020) talk about election campaigning and the primary season in the United States. So far, not so interesting. What’s new and interesting: They record and upload their… [Read more]
Opinion: On being a minority in India right now
It isn’t merely a Hindu versus Muslim issue. It’s a Hindutva (Hindutva ≠ Hinduism) versus Secular India issue. A battle raging in the world’s largest democracy. This piece is not part of the existing Indian Citizenship Amendment… [Read more]
No Country for Two Peoples: Unraveling Israeli State Validation of the ‘Deal of the Century’
Why did Trump’s latest attempt to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict receive the full support of the Israeli government? Georg Weininger, MIA 2020 candidate and former peace consultant for the Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem, argues that… [Read more]
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 – Part I: Violence and Constitutional Violations
The first of a four-part series on the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) passed by Indian Parliament in December 2019 that has sparked a broad range of civil action and violence from the Modi administration.… [Read more]