Resurgent religious terrorism: A study of some of the Lebanese Shi'a contemporary terrorism

Abstract

This study introduces the concept of geocultural immobility. A minority's geocultural immobility is identified as an imposed low geographic mobility within a nation with low cultural pluralism. It establishes the Lebanese Shi'a geocultural immobility, to which it attributes their religious resurgence. This Lebanese Shi'a religious resurgence is proven in this research to produce the zealots needed by religious terrorist organizations. This study also introduces and defines religious terrorism as violent acts performed by elements of religious organizations or sects, growing out of a commitment to communicate a divine message. It makes distinctions among religious terrorism, secular terrorism, and fighters for religious freedom, which are based on the actors' motives, affinities, and consciousness of the maliciousness of their acts. The primary and secondary data and the quasiexperiment in this research support its special hypotheses. They indicate a statistical correlation between eight Lebanese Shi ‘a cultural and religious attributes.     

North Korea’s Resurgence and China’s Rise: Implications for the Future of Northeast Asian Security

Today, Northeast Asia’s security situation is changing rapidly. North Korea is reviving and China’s power is growing at an alarming rate. While the U.S. continues to suffer diplomatically and militarily in the Middle East and from international terrorism, China’s and North Korea’s power is likely to futher increase, polarizing the Northeast Asian security structure, with South Korea, Japan (and Taiwan) all allied with the U.S. versus North Korea allied with China. The liberal democracies should pursue peace with North Korea and China to preclude the situation from aggravating, but should be ready in the longer term to meet, in diverse ways including strengthening their alliances, the challenges posed by rising powers.

振兴东北老工业基地的战略思考

东北是我国最为典型的大经济区 ,对全国的贡献最大 ,但投入十分不足。东北地区存在的困难与矛盾最为突出 ,“东北现象”与“新东北现象”集中说明了这一点。但东北地区经济基础雄厚 ,具有很强的发展潜力。东北老工业基地改造与振兴是一个十分复杂的系统工程 ,应进行国有大中型企业改造及其体制、机制创新 ,发展高新技术产业与接续产业 ,大力发展民营经济 ,走农业工业化的道路。采取的对策和措施包括 :大东北战略 ,大力度的举措 ,切实可行的组织保证。     

Tracing the terrain of Indigenous food sovereignties

Food sovereignty scholars are increasingly re-conceptualizing sovereignty by accounting for its diverse expressions across space according to specific histories, identities, and local socio-ecological realities and dynamics. In grappling with the multiple bases of sovereignty, attention has been directed toward Indigenous food sovereignty in North America. Specifically, food scholars are examining how the regeneration of Indigenous food harvesting and sharing practices shapes movements for decolonization and self-determination. While this is a crucial and much-welcomed intervention, much more is needed to understand the diverse Indigenous political and legal orders and authorities that shape how multiple Indigenous food sovereignties are lived every day across diverse landscapes. In this contribution, I examine how Anishinaabe people in and beyond the Treaty 3 territory in Ontario, Canada, protect and renew their food harvesting grounds, waters and foodways through everyday acts of resurgence that are rooted in their law of mino bimaadiziwin.     

藏区习惯法“回潮”问题研究

藏族习惯法作为＂活法＂,依然作用于藏区社会,学术界对这种＂回潮＂现象的秩序功能和文化价值也是众说纷纭。本文从维护藏族地区社会稳定的角度出发,从藏族习惯法的历史渊源入手,分析了它在现实社会中＂回潮＂的历史、文化、信仰以及社会方面的原因,提出了扬弃与调适的对策建议。