How To Respond To Hostile Attitudes
Question: How should we respond to hostile attitudes towards believers? Whatever the conditions may be, a believer should…
Violence
36 articles
Violence Is Not Human
Violence is not human. Yet, we are weak enough to resort to violence. Human being is to be…
USA: A decade after 9/11
The Fountain supported a conference titled “A Decade after 9/11: Incitement to Hatred and Violence on the Basis…
Peacebuilding through Education
The Fountain is partnering this month with the Peace Islands Institute of New York for the “Peacebuilding through…
The Medicine for This Sickness: A Reaction to the Recent Violence and Killings in Nigeria
These days, we are witnessing a kind of violence never before heard of in our land. Young men…
Building an Ethical and Shared Future through Education in a Glocal Perspective
Glocalisation is a relatively new word or idea for a new time. Information technology, greater communications and travel…
Character Education for Academic Achievement
This article explores whether character education has an impact on preventing school violence through the virtues that it…
Our Big Small World
The past year was a busy one for The Fountain. In cooperation with many local NGOs and authorities,…
The Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence
‘Peaceful coexistence is the most important project of our era. But we cannot do it alone or in…
The Spirit of Norway
A model of reconciled diversity is the only way to the future in our globalized world. It is…
Bridging Omo-ilu and Ara-ilu Gaps… A Simple Justobification
Societies are often classified into different groups. These groups could be ethnic, as in most Sub-Saharan African societies,…
Suffering and Mercy
Last month marked a great loss in world literature; on June 10 Chingiz Aytmatov died. This author, who…
On the Unscientific Basis of the Crusade of Some Scientists against Religion
The voices as well as popularity of certain anti-religion scientists have increased lately. Such figures as evolutionary biologist…
The Place of Tolerance in Islam
In the aftermath of September 11, Islam’s relation to violence and tolerance have been widely discussed. The critics…
Spiritual Revolution for The Universal Peace
MOSCOW – Arbat Street has always been compared to Oxford Street in London, or 5th Avenue in Manhattan,…