Focus 62 – Indian Urban Policy for Environmental Sustainability: The Role of Behavioural...
Abstract
The adoption of practices such as washing hands for a minimum of 20 seconds, excessive and frequent sanitisation, maintaining physical distance, etc. has compelled us to change our behaviours and adapt to the crisis, even if reluctantly. Amidst this pandemic, the world continues to face an ongoing environmental crisis....
COMMENT 190 – Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Peace Agreement or...
Background
The United States and the Taliban have recently signed a peace agreement aimed at bringing the nineteen-year-long war in Afghanistan to an end. Negotiations between the two parties were broadly based on the exchange of a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign forces stationed in Afghanistan against an...
FOCUS 43 – In the line of fire: The climate threat to global security
Abstract
Climate change, increasingly being called the climate crisis, is arguably the greatest threat to human life as we know it. Across regions in the world, people are experiencing the most adverse impacts of this crisis in the form of more frequent and more intense climate extremes like heatwaves,...
SADF NEWSLETTER 1 – India and Bangladesh Relations
On 8.12.24, SADF held a podcast with SADF Director Paulo Casaca and Barrister Tania Amir, moderated by Dr. Rayhan Rashid, about current India-Bangladesh relations. These are very strained at the moment, with symbolic actions on both sides; SADF gathered a few points before the podcast. How are we, in...
SADF Research Report 2 – Patronage as Politics – The Quest to Redefine ‘Corruption’...
Abstract
This article focuses on the subject of corruption, defined as unlawful appropriation of public goods and benefits by individuals and personal interests. It is first argued that corruption is still widely prevalent in the contemporary world: developed state and bureaucratic structures are a recent, long- and hard-earned, relatively rare...
Policy Brief 10 – Tablighi Jamaat and its role in the Global Jihad
Abstract
This SADF Policy Brief deals with Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), a transnational Islamic missionary movement. Despite declaring itself as officially apolitical and non-violent, TJ is cited by German and other European intelligence reports that underline (manifold) threats originating from the movement. An increasing number of assessments emphasise TJ’s function as...