A faith-based aid revolution in the Muslim world?
Every year, somewhere between US$200 billion and $1 trillion are spent in “mandatory” alms and voluntary charity across the Muslim world, Islamic financial analysts estimate. At the low end of the estimate, this is 15 times more than global humanitarian aid contributions* in 2011. Islam requires Muslims to give a portion of their wealth to charity […]
War on fake news could be won with the help of behavioral science
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently acknowledged his company’s responsibility in helping create the enormous amount of fake news that plagued the 2016 election – after earlier denials. Yet he offered no concrete details on what Facebook could do about it. Fortunately, there’s a way to fight fake news that already exists and has behavioral science on its side: […]
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
It started last April with two people from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota praying in a teepee for others to come and help fight an oil pipeline they believed would threaten their land and water. And come they did — climate activists, social justice groups, Black Lives Matter, Native people from around […]
The Muslim world has to take climate action
For years now, a strange paradox has existed within the Muslim world. On the one hand, Muslims – who represent more than a fifth of the global population – live in some of the regions most affected by the changing climate; from Turkey and the Middle East with their increasingly intense droughts to the floodplains […]
This Pakistani police officer is on the leading edge of a trend that could lead to a more peaceful world
The stench of diesel in the air. Asima Naqvi is a lone woman standing on the side of a noisy highway. She wears a stiff grey police uniform, and has a gun at her hip and rose perfume in her purse. She is ticketing drivers for traffic violations. The perfume reminds her of who she […]