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The Myth of a US Colorblind Constitution
Hussein Ibish 6 July 2023

The US Supreme Court has issued another shocking but unsurprising ruling that arbitrarily dispenses with precedents and upends long-settled law at the expense of the historically disempowered: now African American and Latino students will be deprived of “affirmative action” programmes considering race in university admissions. However, the assumption there was a shared originary understanding of the Constitution is false since the Constitution has been aggressively colour-conscious throughout its history, mainly at the expense of minority groups
Society
Caught Between Two Countries. A Day in the Life of Greece’s Turkish Minority
Evan Pheiffer 30 November 2021

The 100,000-strong Turkish minority of Thrace is proudly attached to its roots – and equally cautious at Ankara’s religious-conservative drift.
Human Rights
“The World Can’t Ignore the Uyghurs’ Genocide Anymore”. An Interview with Dolkun Isa
Giovanni Panzeri 4 June 2021

A large-scale cultural/physical repression project, and what the international community should do about it. The president of the World Uyghur Congress speaks with ResetDOC on the occasion of the opening of the Uyghur Tribunal, a quasi-judicial organization set up to gather evidence of human rights abuses and genocide by the Chinese government on the Uyghur population.
International Affairs
Ferocious Violence Against India’s Muslims and the BJP’s Complicity
Maria Tavernini 5 March 2020

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi was smiling and shaking hands with President Donald Trump, India witnessed a new wave of violence that targeted the Muslim minority in New Delhi. To what extent is its ruling party responsible for this?
International Affairs, Sociology
Hunting for the Swing Vote: A Sociological Analysis of Israel’s Third Election
Claudia De Martino 14 February 2020

Far from any grand debate about the “Deal of the Century”, the preferences of a few key minority groups will most likely tilt the balance of Israel’s third consecutive general election. Here’s why.
International Affairs, Migrations
The Citizenship Amendment Bill: A Pall Over India’s Democracy
Maria Tavernini 18 December 2019

The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) is widely seen as a frontal attack on the secular character of the Indian Constitution, the principle of equality, and it openly discriminates against the Muslim minority. Is India turning into a Hindu’s nationalist state?
Religion
Christians in Syria: escape, decimation and fear of Assad’s return
Riccardo Cristiano 23 July 2018

It is March 7th 2013. In a few short months Father Paolo Dall’Oglio will be taken prisoner by ISIS in Raqqa, right at the beginning of his mission to save others who had been kidnapped in Syria since 2011.
Political Theory
Syria. A point of no return?
Father Paolo Dall'Oglio talks to Antonella Vicini 9 January 2013

Father Paolo Dall’Oglio has lived in Syria for over thirty years and is certainly an expert on the Syrian situations with all its lights and shadows. The founder of the Deir Mar Musa monastic community, in the desert north of Damascus, Father Paolo has always been committed to interreligious dialogue with the Muslim world and until last June, when he was sent away by the regime, he personally reported the tragedies he saw every day. Reset-DoC has interviewed him.
Political Theory
Minorities and Pluralism
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A comparison between India and Europe 25 May 2011
A special issue of the Indian magazine Seminar for Reset-Doc and an essay by Mujibur Rehman about the Muslim minority in India.
Migrations
Open society and Islam: a debate held in Zurich
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Nicola Missaglia 1 December 2010
On November 17th 2010, ResetDoc and the Swiss University organisation UFSP Asia and Europe organised a conference on this subject in Zurich, on the theme “Islam in Europe”. Widely reported by the Swiss press, the event was held in the assembly hall at Zurich University, filled with students, professors and ordinary citizens, bearing witness to the fact that the need to address subjects such as pluralism, relations with Islam and European democracies, democratic dialectics between the majority and the minorities, tension between liberal principles and the traditional instruments of democratic deliberation, is a need that a rising number of people consider pressing.