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The Nexus Between Human Dignity and Religious Freedom
January 22, 2024 • Portico
Peace is a fruit of justice. The core of justice is based on the respect of fundamental human rights. And the foundational principle of human…
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The Need for Trust-building in a Post-Coup Future Myanmar
January 17, 2024 • Portico
Achieving unity poses the greatest challenge for Myanmar, given the systemic division among diverse religious and ethnic groups that has persisted during seven decades of…
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The Grand Bargain of Religious Freedom and Religious Responsibility: The Mennonite Example
October 31, 2023 • Portico
As the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE) has long argued, an environment of religious freedom will only become sustainable when there is a grand bargain…
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New Pathways to Positive Engagement in Afghanistan
September 5, 2023 • Portico
The tenor of American engagement with the Taliban remains uncertain at the second anniversary of the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. I was in…
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Fighting the Good Fight: Then and Now
March 18, 2016 • Portico
“The enemy is of two kinds: the tyrant dictator, and the religious fanatic. To act against the first is feasible…but to act against the second…
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The Last Gasp of the Cradle Christians?
June 9, 2015 • Portico
Next Step Re Iraq & ISIS: Declare & Defend the Nineveh Plain as Safe Haven for Sunnis, Christians, and Yazidis It seems that the situation…
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5 principles for a post-ISIS plan in the Middle East
April 14, 2015 • Portico
In the words of Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government-Iraq representative to the United States (as told to me last month), “We are all…
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Ironic Irrelevance: The U.S. National Security Strategy’s Lack of Strategy on Religion
March 4, 2015 • Portico
The new U.S. National Security Strategy document, released last month, was ironic at many levels. In the world today, religion is clearly part of the…
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Crisis in the Cradle of Christianity: A Strategy to Rescue, Restore & Return
November 20, 2014 • Portico
Global Friends of all faiths and none, As you probably know, I and my organization (IGE), work for people everywhere to have an opportunity to…
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From Paradox to Possibility: Practicing the Golden Rule in a Global World
July 31, 2014 • Portico
Some thoughts on how to effect change in complex contexts. The article is a strategic snapshot of the lessons we have learned over the past…
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A New Vision for US Foreign Policy
March 19, 2014 • Portico
This blog post originally appeared on the World Economic Forum blog. Americans believe in the power of the bottom-up (people-to-people exchanges), but they have lost…
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What Faith can Teach us about Resilient Leaders
February 19, 2014 • Portico
This blog post originally appeared on the World Economic Forum blog. The unpredictable impact of globalization can besiege individuals and institutions alike, creating the potential…
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