Conflicts Forum

Conflicts Forum’s latest Monograph, from a meeting held in Beirut, May 2009
The papers published here in this small volume are from a meeting held in May 2009 which looked at evolving currents in Salafism and Shi’ism. The purpose of the meeting was to address the future – and what this imminent future might bring to […]

Conflicts Forum’s latest Monograph, by Aisling Byrne
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A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Leo Kwarten*, June, 2009
Shiite citizens face considerable religious, political and social discrimination in Saudi society. In the 1970s and 1980s, this situation has instigated bloody street protests and Shia calls for an Islamic revolution. Although the Saudi Shiites have considerably moderated their position since, these incidents still feed speculations about […]

A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Professor Ahmad Moussalli*, January, 2009
This essay constructs and deconstructs three main discourses created by different and opposing trends in modern Islamic thought that are normally and mistakenly lumped together as Islamism, fundamentalism, salafism, neo-salafism, Wahhabism, jihadism, political Islam, Islamic radicalism and others. I will compare and contrast between them by […]

A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, January, 2009
The image of Iran is almost always negative in the western media. Whether it is the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, or Newsweek, Iran is regularly described as a land of abnormalities. One could argue that their representations of […]

A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Faisal Devji, November, 2008
This paper makes the argument that militants associated with Al-Qaeda speak from within the world of their enemies and possess no place outside it. Whether these enemies are Western democracies or Muslim liberals, militants derive strength from exploiting their weaknesses and contradictions rather than from some alternative […]