With the year 2003 drawing to an end in less than two months, Ferdinand Katendeko, despite the history of conflict and simmering violence in many parts of the region, looks at the countries that compose the Inter Government Authority on Development (IGAD), and finds much to be hopeful about.

Ferdinand Katendeko writes: “Whenever the month of April approaches, I recall what happened in my neighbouring country, Rwanda. What policies should governments put in place to avoid this genocide? How should the international community prepare itself to avoid such an occurrence? What role should the local community in such circumstances of

The Wahhabi state of Saudi Arabia is the holy gem of Islam and the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. Saudi women must wait for months at a time to do basic communal things, until their husbands, fathers, brothers or uncles are available to drive them

It is a common observation that national school systems are better able to meet the needs of some students than others -- and that certain groups "fall through the cracks". In US schools, drop-out rates for Spanish speaking students are disproportionately high, reinforcing economic and social divides between Latin American

Religious radicalism - among Muslims, Christians and Jews - is a serious threat to world peace: "People of all three divinely revealed religions must be told that they have a responsibility to be compassionate, patient, gentle, friendly, polite, and respectful. They have to be made aware that God forbids violence,

Every region and/or state needs to develop a framework to reduce risk associated with disasters or design methodologies for preventing disaster, especially with the wave of disaster spreading worldwide from natural hazards. Thus, appropriate and sustainable policy should be advocated and implemented as a way of ameliorating these unavoidable occurrences.

This paper aims at highlighting the shortcomings of institutions that do not uphold the principles of good governance in Cameroon and how they have led to a series of conflicts and uprising that nearly paralysed the country and threatened the peace and integrity of the nation.

Researcher Mathew G. Ituma discusses the recent murder of Sikh worshippers at a temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin, as well as the racist attack on the Bontas family in the Reno Sparks Indian Colony or Nevada in an effort to understand the twisted subculture of racist hate crimes in the