Politics & Society Sport and the Power of Conflict Sport brings the world together – or not? Incidents at the Olympic Games, Euro 2020 and other events have lately shown us the other, divisive side of sport.
Politics & Society Trisomie-Bluttests als Kassenleistung: Keine Lifestyle-Medizin Die emotional geführte Debatte um die Kassenfinanzierung von vorgeburtlichen Trisomie-Bluttests nimmt aktuell wieder an Fahrt auf. Dabei verdeutlicht sie auch die Notwendigkeit, Schwangeren in erster Linie eine reflektierte Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Situation zu ermöglichen.
Politics & Society How ‘Global’ is ‘Global Jihād’ in Mali? By the end of the year, France will pull more than 2,000 troops from the Sahel, but its military involvement in the region will persist. Blindly referring to ideological root causes of violence, however, leaves local conflicts out of the equation, while ignoring religious factors altogether is equally problematic.
Politics & Society “Our Aim is to Show the Diversity of Muslim voices”: An Interview with Ulrike Freitag Hardly a day in Western media and on the political stage goes by without a discussion about Muslims and Islam. Yet, we still seem to grapple with understanding the complexity of Muslim identities. We talked with Ulrike Freitag, director of Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, about internal diversity, hands-on research, and the importance of “unmuting” marginalized voices.