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Humantrustees.org aims to foster understanding and cooperation between Muslims and Christians so as to empower them to live up to their God-given calling as “trustees of the earth.” This Christian initiative seeks to accomplish this goal through scholarship, teaching, news commentary, and networking between scholars, members of both communities, and with anyone else who is passionate about peace and human flourishing.
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02 August 2022

The New Economy and the SDGs (2)

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“John Kirton, professor of political science and the director and co-founder of the G7 Research Group, co-director and founder of the G20 Research Group, speaking on Good Governance at the launch event for the Global Governance Project, an initiative in collaboration with the world-renowned G7 and G20 Research Groups covering compliance, accountability measures and good governance in connection with the annual G7 and G20 summits.”
In the first half of this post, the economist delegated by the US to last year’s G7 meeting in Cornwall, Felicia Wong, told us that she and her colleagues from the other 6 nations have noticed a shift in economic thinking. Call it the Washington Consensus of the 1980s giving way to the Cornwall Consensus. Neoliberalism with its mantra of…
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17 June 2022

The New Economy and the SDGs (1)

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“Amid record high food insecurity in crisis-hit Syria, UNDP and humanitarian partners join efforts to increase access to affordable bread for vulnerable Syrians.”
This two-part post/essay is my way of introducing (and articulating for myself) one of the main themes of my present book project – human flourishing as defined by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, 2015-2030). These 17 goals are breathtakingly comprehensive (see my 2018 post “Ending Hunger” on this). They range from those more traditional development goals like poverty…
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20 May 2022

White Race Anxiety and Violence

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“Gov. Jay Inslee joined businesses, advocates and other leaders who are leading the way on Friday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The governor underscored that Washington is a place of belonging, ready to welcome all arriving Afghans and speaking out the recent upswing in violence against immigrant and Muslim communities.”
Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old shooter who killed ten people in Buffalo last weekend, posted a 180-page manifesto two days before. In it, he said he would target the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, because Blacks seek to “ethnically replace my own people.” The code word here is “replace,” and refers to the “great replacement theory,” which targets equally Black and…
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03 February 2022

Mustafa Akyol's Defense of Liberty Is Also About Peacebuilding

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“In this highly readable and timely book, Akyol traces manifestations of individual liberty and social, economic, and political freedoms in ways in which Islam has been lived through history. He sees Islam as an intellectual debate rather than an immutable code, and hence open to interpretation. This is an important contribution to the debate over the future of the Muslim world. It is a must-read for Muslims and non-Muslims.” -- Vali Nasr, author of “Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future”
[Over lunch in Washington in November 2021 I promised Mustafa Akyol that I would write a review of the book he wrote during the pandemic, which was published by the think tank where he works, the Cato Institute. I finally did write it, and it was published last month in the widely read Pakistani news outlet Global Village Space. As…
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