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  • February 22, 2013
    London Met: silencing staff representatives or punishing ex-extremist?

    London Metropolitan University has hit the headlines by suspending three staff at its Working Lives Research Institute.

  • December 14, 2012
    Nigerian Christians concerned about more attacks at Christmas

    Nigerian Christians are asking churches across the world to pray for their safety from deadly attacks this Christmas, amid renewed threats.

  • November 14, 2012
    Abu Qatada, torture, law and media solipsism

    Yesterday (13 November 2012), risking the considerable wrath of his readership, the conservative commentator Peter Oborne made a brief but principled comment on his Daily Telegraph blog.

  • August 6, 2012
    Sikhs condemn terror attack on Gurdwara in United States

    The advocacy group United Sikhs has strongly condemned the horrific shooting of innocent people at a Gurdwara (temple) in Oak Creek, USA.

  • September 11, 2011
    Changing perspectives from 9/11, ten years after

    Over the past ten years we have witnessed the birth of the neologism '9/11' and the horrid and inaccurate phrase 'global war on terror'. Some of what happened in those ten intervening years is now history, says Harry Hagopian. But much of it continues to resonate across the globe, calling us to a change of outlook and action. Revolutions and popular revolts across the Middle East and North Africa region vindicate the standpoint that real changes should come from within and do not necessarily get imposed militarily upon a whole people anymore.

  • September 11, 2011
    Muslims around the world condemn violence on 9/11 anniversary

    Muslim groups in the USA and around the world have united with people of other religions and of none to condemn terrorism and other forms of violence.

  • September 11, 2011
    Ten years after 9/11

    The head of the the World Council of Churches, which brings together over 340 major Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, Peace Church and indigenous Christian communions in conversation with the Roman Catholic Church worldwide, is from Norway - a country which has been exposed to the horror of terrorism recently.

  • September 11, 2011
    9/11 and the lost decade

    What are the principal lessons of the ten years of war since the 11 September 2001 attacks? Paul Rogers, professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, gives some crisp answers. He has played a prominent role in the Oxford Research Group, has written extensively on related global and regional issues, and his first openDemocracy column was published a few days after 9/11.

  • July 30, 2011
    WCC encourages Norwegian churches to "overcome terror"

    In a letter to the Christian Council of Norway, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has expressed support over the terrible killings last week.

  • July 27, 2011
    Unite against religious violence, says Interfaith Network

    The Interfaith Network in the UK has urged religious groups to unite against violence and prejudice following the murder of 76 people in Norway last week.