Mia Bloom is an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her focus is on terrorism through her fellowship at the International Center for the Study of Terrorism and her work specializes in Middle Eastern conflicts as well as rape in war. Mia’s studies have been featured on numerous media outlets, including CNN and CSPAN, and has been interviewed by Nightline’s Ted Koppel and PBS’ Jim Lehrer. Mia’s most recent work focuses on exposing the emergent occurrence of women and child terrorists. Her book, Bombshell: The Many Faces of Women Terrorists, brings these growing problems to light, analyzing the root causes and the direction of modern terrorism today.

Peter van Uhm is the Netherlands’ chief of defense, but that does not mean he is pro-war. At TEDxAmsterdam he explains how his career is one shaped by a love of peace, not a desire for bloodshed — and why we need armies if we want peace.

I feel so happy after reading following article, it strengthens my opinion more that majority of pakistanis want peace and they don’t bother about sectarian conflicts. Most of them living in harmony. We can live in harmony and peace if … Continue reading →

On Eve of 25th December, I just want to say to the soul of Quaid e Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah that Baba, we are ashamed that after 11th September, 1948, we lost our unity, we lost our dignity, people around the world recognized us as terrorists, culprits and incompetent. Baba, you freed this homeland for [...]

glad to have angela king as a friend and to be concerned about the same things together

http://lifeafterhate.org/2011/12/lest-we-forget/

i wish the pictures from Pakistan were non-terrorism related – but ces’t la vie!

http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2011/11/21/best-photos-of-the-year-2011/#a=1

anonymous extraordinaries, invisible children, and other information, interesting and worth the 13 minutes.

forced me to think, that although there is no study on this issue, i personally know that children are abducted, brainwashed, and families blackmailed in Pakistan to make the children suicide bombers.

this is neither anonymous, nor extraordinary, but certainly it is invisible an ostrich head in the sand or the pigeons eyes closed syndrome – just another ordinary act on just another ordinary day! only we do not care.

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