Analyses
Ramin Jahanbegloo: “The Iranian People Are Tired of Dying Because of the Ayatollahs”
Giancarlo Bosetti 21 June 2025
Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of Iran’s preeminent intellectual figures, attends the conference ‘Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia’ held under the auspices of former Czech president Vaclav Havel on September 11, 2009, in Prague. Other guests of this conference are Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk, Rabiya Kadeer, head of the World Uighur Congress, Robert Menard of France, former Secretary-General of Reporters Without Bord and others philosophers and disidents.AFP PHOTO MICHAL CIZEK (Photo by MICHAL CIZEK / AFP)
  • When “Greater Israel” Targets Christians Too
    Claudia De Martino 3 October 2025
    In the peak of summer, as Operation Gideon’s Chariots (launched in May 2025) entered its second month, news emerged that the Israeli army had bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, the Church of the Holy Family, on July 17. The strike killed three people—a relatively small number in a territory where daily fatalities range between 40 and 70—but it drew attention across, where many governments had assumed that Christian sites and communities would be spared the violence by religious or diplomatic convention.
  • Brazil Shows Accountability Works: A Lesson for the US
    Andre Diniz Pagliarini 30 September 2025
    Earlier this month, Brazil did something the United States couldn’t: it punished a president who tried to overturn an election. Jair Bolsonaro lost in 2022, claimed fraud, encouraged his supporters to storm Brasília, and is now serving a 27-year sentence for subverting democracy. Donald Trump lost in 2020, made nearly identical false claims, watched as his most fervent supporters sacked the U.S. Capitol—and he’s back in the White House. That contrast is telling. It goes to the heart of whether democracies can enforce the rules that make them democracies in the first place. Brazil’s message is clear: accountability is possible, even in a deeply polarized society. The United States’ is equally stark: polarization can become an alibi for impunity.
  • Raluca Ganea: “We Must Offer an Alternative to Netanyahu’s Eternal War”
    Alessandra Tommasi 26 September 2025
    After almost two years of war in Gaza and at least 65,000 Palestinians killed, recognition of Palestine as a state has become an urgent issue internationally. France and the United Kingdom recently recognized Palestine, joining other Western countries and bringing the tally to four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council whose recommendation is required for recognition at the United Nations. Meanwhile, calls for a Palestinian state are multiplying. Among them is a petition by 60 Israeli NGOs, united under It’s Time, a coalition supporting a two-state solution that organized a peace summit in May. Reset DOC spoke with Raluca Ganea—co-founder and executive director of Zazim, a civic movement of Arabs and Jews working together for democracy and equality, and a member of It’s Time—about what is required to turn the vision of a two-state solution into a political reality.
  • The Palestinian Factor in Alaa Abd al-Fattah’s Release
    Gianni Del Panta 25 September 2025
    Alaa Abd al-Fattah, one of the most iconic figures of Egypt’s 2011 revolution and the country’s most prominent political prisoner under President al-Sisi, was released last Monday, September 22, by presidential decree. The news, confirmed by family lawyer and former presidential candidate Khaled Ali, was met with jubilation among relatives and political activists alike. Alaa’s sister, longtime activist Mona Seif, posted a brief message on X: “My heart is about to stop.” Their mother, Laila Soueif—who had waged a prolonged hunger strike that left her in fragile health and sparked fears for her life—reacted from her home in Giza, where she sat beside her son, surrounded by family and friends. Alongside her joy, she insisted the struggle would not be over until Egypt is free of political prisoners.
  • Centuries of Jail Sentences Pile Up in Tunisia Crackdown
    Federica Zoja 18 September 2025
    Ramla Dahmani is the sister of Tunisian political commentator, journalist, and lawyer Sonia Dahmani, who is currently imprisoned in her country for allegedly spreading false information. Ramla herself, speaking out from a secret location in Europe to defend her sister and draw international attention to her case, has also been sentenced to prison. The ruling, issued in absentia on July 1, came to light only by chance, when her lawyers—having received no formal notification—stumbled upon it in judicial records. Otherwise, Ramla would have faced an unexpected arrest and imprisonment upon any return trip to Tunisia.
  • Haifa University Peace Prize Assigned to Cardinal Pizzaballa
    Alessandra Tommasi 17 September 2025
    Christ is in Gaza, “crucified in the wounded and buried under the rubble.” With that image, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, reaffirmed the Church’s presence in the enclave after his latest visit to the Strip. In August, he refused to evacuate the Holy Family parish in Gaza City, “a shelter for hundreds of civilians,” despite Israel’s announcement of its occupation. After October 7, 2023, he offered himself to Hamas in exchange for Israeli children held hostage. Now, the Laboratory for Religious Studies at the University of Haifa, led by Uriel Simonsohn, has awarded him their Annual Peace Award, which, for the past three years, has honored religious leaders who build bridges for local and regional peace.
  • Can China’s Global Governance Initiative Adapt the World Order to Multipolarity?
    Seán Golden 12 September 2025
    China marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II (WWII) with an orchestrated set of events designed to visualize how much the current world order has changed. It convened a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that included Xi Jinping’s announcement of a Global Governance Initiative (全球治理倡议 Quanqiu zhili changyi), and staged a massive military parade that highlighted the advanced technology of China’s armed forces. Donald Trump’s typically hostile and narcissistic reaction showed how successful it had been.
  • The Christian Martyrs of Algeria: Why They Stayed
    Pasquale Ferrara 10 September 2025
    The connection between religion and violence has long been seen as a political and sociological certainty. In recent decades, particularly after the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution and the September 11, 2001 attacks, religions have returned to the center of the international political stage, and not always for the right reasons. Examples abound: conflicts in Bosnia, Algeria, Kashmir, Palestine, and Sudan; as well as violent Islamism, Hindu nationalism, the Christian Evangelical right, and extremist Jewish parties. The return of religion to international politics has been linked to the broader theme of identity politics. Religions have often been considered an emblematic case of the encroachment of irrationality into international security.
  • The Price of Partnership: Can South Africa Trust Washington Again?
    Rabia Turnbull 9 September 2025
    On a crisp morning in Citrusdal, trucks brimming with oranges idled under the blazing South African sun, farmers watched helplessly as port authorities halted shipments to the United States. A new 30 percent tariff, one of the highest imposed by the Trump administration, had shut off access to one of South Africa’s largest export markets. For families whose livelihoods depend on agriculture, the shock was immediate, putting an estimated 30,000 jobs at risk.
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