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There are books that leave their mark on people and beyond, on collectives, countries and different generations. We are talking about the Popol Vuh or Popol Wuj – the closest to the K’iché orthography – and with a universal meaning…

One of the main objectives of the neoliberal project, which is also its method, is the atomisation of the social – human – being into a thousand schizophrenic splinters of personal pseudo-freedoms and pseudo-independences. We can look for the crudest…

Hope, excitement and optimism are just a few of the terms that have animated the political discourse in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution. However, with a perpetual economic degradation that was amplified by the pandemic, the legitimate strife for “job,…

I am writing this on March 8th, marking the date of International Women’s Day. Which makes me disheartened to say that as a woman, I am still burdened with gender inequalities my grandmother would’ve faced in the early 50s. Over…

Democracy and Human Rights have become a buzzword in the 21st Century. After the ascension of the Biden administration in the United States (US), we are seeing a new foreign policy based on these two concepts. We often see politicians…

Dear M. Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, M.Prime Minister, you will meet in a few days the US President Joe Biden to talk about North America’s air defense agreement and other important issues. As a Canadian, and a single…

It is evening in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, one of NATO’s easternmost members. I am waiting at the edge of Izvor Park in the city center to meet with a young friend who has fled Ukraine. In the backdrop…

The peace movement did a great many things right in the first decade of this millennium, some of which we’ve forgotten. It also fell short in many ways. I want to highlight the lessons I think we’ve most failed to…

After Francis Fukuyama decreed the end of ideologies in his book The End of History and the Last Man (1992) and after a large number of intellectuals, thinkers and activists raised dissonant voices [1], the intellectual world has had to…

Very often, the word nonviolence conjures up the image of good people who do not harm others and who, in general, prefer to avoid conflict. Nonviolence is associated with a form of passivity, with not being violent, or even with…