https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to war on terror en https://religiondispatches.org/2021/09/09/biggest-lesson-learned-us-war-afghanistan-how-little-weve-learned Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 th attacks, President George W. Bush unleashed what he termed the War on Terror that reoriented the geopolitical security paradigm forever. In its wake, the Department of Homeland Security… Thu, 09 Sep 2021 01:30:33 EDT Sara Kamali 90282776-027d-4239-9e96-f6d4b9ca5c45 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/08/22/refusing-monsters-maple-street-first-person-commentary-mass-hysteria-jfk The mainstream discourse in the West describes the “War on Terror” as a “geopolitical” mission. When we speak of terrorism, we talk about territories held and lost by “extremists” and “insurgents,” the challenge of migrations and home-grown terror networks, subnational… Mon, 22 Aug 2016 06:00:16 EDT Marion Grau d764d17b-ab55-44f8-9b44-5a2e86d83205 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/09/27/fighting-terrorism-without-drones Sure terrorism is a battle of arms and ideas. But the ideas must come from some context. Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:05:46 EDT Michael Schulson 1db397bc-27a0-4b41-af2d-36229a324c4d https://religiondispatches.org/2009/12/13/barack-obama-high-priest-chief Ironically, the president’s Nobel acceptance speech reestablished many of the (flawed) Bush justifications for war. Are we, or are we not, in a religious war? Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:27:45 EST Matthew Avery Sutton 8fa99295-5d0c-4af1-bb35-558ee5e3360c https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/17/nonviolence-between-our-safety-and-our-ideals Nonviolent resistance movements were part of the 20th century’s eternal contribution to human history; can those ideals be sustained and reinvigorated for a new era? Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:58:29 EDT Nathan Schneider 31cb48cd-c991-4511-b1f9-2f2c922bb2c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/16/war-terror-over First of all, the phrase “war on terror” needs to be retired. As a war, it is largely imagined, and as an idea it is ill-conceived. The effect of thinking in terms of global war is to make enemies out of millions of Muslims who would otherwise have been our friends. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:13:11 EDT Mark Juergensmeyer 2521b415-8aa0-4a7c-81b7-8a93d4bd8a3c https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/11/terminal-5-product-new-post-911-realities We simply took a page from the Israeli anti-terror playbook (“hit them ten times as hard as they hit you”), and we now live in a world as permanently destabilized as the world most Israelis so grimly inhabit. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:17:31 EDT Louis A. Ruprecht 4c65c2c3-34db-45bd-869b-f394e2cc387c https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/11/terror-terror-does It is not terrorism which should occupy our attention, so much as the dangerous proliferation of new and indiscriminate weapons… Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:55:44 EDT Louis A. Ruprecht 123b9a2e-a547-4cfb-8f93-202eb69187ab https://religiondispatches.org/2009/05/21/ap-bush-soldiers-live-out-gospel Deconstructing the systematic political theology in the president’s Easter address; are American soldiers merely imitating Christ? Thu, 21 May 2009 03:04:46 EDT Ira Chernus dba42e83-1958-415f-96fe-baee2adf05c8