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The Bridge Initiative aims to disseminate original and accessible research, offers engaging analysis and commentary on contemporary issues, and hosts a wide repository of educational resources to inform the general public about Islamophobia.
Research & Resources
Highlights from 2017 Brookings US-Islamic World Forum
As the city of New York prepared to host the 193-member United Nations convening of the 2017 UN General Assembly, the Big Apple was also hosting hundreds of international participants for the 13th annual 2017 US-Islamic World Forum co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Gulf state of Qatar. The theme for this year’s 2017 US-Islamic…
Islamophobic Genocide of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims
Under international law, the concept of “ethnic cleansing” was first officially investigated by the United Nations during the Balkan genocide in the former Yugoslavia during the mid-1990’s. A U.N. commission of experts generally defined the term “ethnic cleansing” as “rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the…
Nationalists 1st: Trump, Charlottesville, and racists
Donald Trump successfully drew on the many success stories of right-wing populist parties in Europe to win the elections and become president of the United States of America. He used a slogan that has been popular in Europe’s plagued history of right-wing populist parties. In France, the National Front has been campaigning with the slogan…