Religion and Civil Society

Journal Article

Faith-based Organizations, Science, and the Pursuit of Health

A faith-based health research network could create a framework for evaluating such efforts.

Commentary

The Great Silencing: Intolerance and Censorship in the Arab World

Report

United States, East Africa Allies Must Overcome Radical Islam to Reshape the Region' Security

While al Qaeda is the primary terrorist/extremist threat in East Africa, the region suffers more broadly from a danger of radical Islamist groups and organizations that the United States and its allies must address to reshape the region's security environment.

Commentary

Backlash Against Terror

The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, are part of a disturbing trend across the Muslim world of groups that target civilians in the name of Islam. Less visible to Western eyes, but potentially just as significant, is a growing backlash among Muslims who condemn such attacks as unethical, writes ...

Report

The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey: The Nation’s Role in Western Security Efforts

While Muslim-majority Turkey may be the linchpin to promoting liberal Islam worldwide, relationships between the nation’s secular government and religious forces have shifted in the past decade, with implications for the future of Islam in the region and the world.

Testimony

Islam and the West: Searching for Common Ground: The Terrorist Threat and the Counter-Terrorism Effort

Testimony presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 18, 2006.

Commentary

Cartoons and Terror

Published commentary by RAND staff: Cartoons and Terror, in United Press International.

Commentary

Unavoidable Clash of Islam and the West?

Published commentary by RAND staff.

Journal Article

Obstacles and Opportunities in Providing Mental Health Services Through a Faith-Based Network in Los Angeles

This study surveyed attitudes toward mental health services and barriers to providing these services within the agencies of QueensCare Health and Faith Partnership, a network of faith based organizations, and parish nurses who provided health care in a low-income, ethnically diverse area of Los Angeles.

Report

Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies

Islam's own internal struggles make it difficult for outsiders to understand the actors and the issues. The United States and its allies could best counter the destabilizing forces of radical Islam by gaining an understanding of the broad range of views among Muslims that make some potential allies and others determined adversaries.

Report

Democracy and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan

Democracy and Islam in the New Constitution of Afghanistan

Commercial Book

A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West

This book explores the nature of the friction between the Muslim world and the West, looking at legitimate perceptions and grievances on both sides. Arguing that

Report

Is the Soviet Union Islam's Best Friend? Not Exactly

Discusses Moscow's treatment of Soviet Muslims from the Bolshevik revolution to the present.

People

Stephen Dalzell

People

Emma Zürcher