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Ralf Wüstenberg

Zeina Barakat, a Jerusalem-born Palestinian scholar, Dr. phil. (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena 2017), is a Research Assistant at Europa-Universität Flensburg and since 2019 a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute (Cambridge University/ UK).
Conflict Resolution through Reconciliation

Conflict Resolution through Reconciliation

Forty years after the first free elections in South Africa in 1994 it is worth revisiting the TRC-process that was at the time a shining example for conflict resolution through reconciliation. After the fall of the Wall, in Germany the less symbolically pregnant notion of “working through the past” (“Aufarbeitung von Vergangenheit”) was preferred.

Islam and Democracy

Islam and Democracy

This volume breaks new ground by seeking to identify and focus on the challenges faced by any attempt to integrate democratic principles within the broad framework of Islamic thought and practice. It does so by harnessing the views of seventeen distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines who not only provide their own perspectives, but actively engage with the views of other contributors, thus producing arguments and synergies which are both erudite and convincing.