The Medina Charter: History’s First Blueprint for Inclusive Governance
Yetkin Yildirim Mahmut YilmazCelik Akgobek If you could step into the year 622 and walk through the streets…
Justice
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Humanitarian legacy of Fethullah Gülen
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen was an Islamic scholar, preacher and social advocate with a decades-long commitment to education, altruistic…
Light and Darkness: A Continuous Cycle
Light persistently pursues darkness; they coexist in close companionship. The rhythm of days succeeding nights embodies this eternal…
Restorative Justice
When crime happens, it usually involves two kinds of stakeholders: primary and secondary (McCold 2000). The categorization is…
Compassion and Forgiveness: Fastest and Safest Path to Truth
Many of us must have watched a video in which a mother antelope is sacrificing herself when she…
The Veil of Ignorance
In a March 11, 2021, interview with Philosophy Magazine, Karl Lauterbach, now Germany’s health minister, concluded, “Corona policy…
Religions and Economic Justice
Economic inequality refers to the disparity of wealth or income between individuals or between the different groups in…
Rights, Justice, and Games
One picture that has been viral these days depicts a diver next to a giant shark. It reads…
Reflections of a Human Rights Advocate
Civil society has yet to define and accept broader human rights … The struggle goes on, building on…
Nasraddin Hodja’s Pot and Reductio Ad Absurdum
From a children’s tale to Socrates and the Qur’an, the need for logic and sound reasoning is universal.…
Cancer: Cellular Anarchy
Cancer is a complex disease, claiming millions of lives every year. There is no single type of cancer.…
The Fountain: Metaphor and Magazine
I read The Fountain as a Christian. Consequently, the magazine’s title is a rich metaphor. For Christians, a…
The bomb ticks on
Torture is an act that is almost universally condemned. It is prohibited in international law and is not…
Cries of Silence
For many years now, cries of silence have clamored above my voice. So many times have I been…
The Relationship between Law and the Benefits of Intermingling Them
From the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles to Shakespeare, Dickens and modern legal dramatist Grisham, stories about law have…