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The destruction of indigenous, tribal peoples in remote and/or frontier regions of the developing world is often assumed to be the outcome of inexorable, even inevitable forces of progress. People are not so much killed, they become extinct. Terms such as ethnocide, cultural genocide or developmental genocide suggest a distinct form of "off the map" elimination. By concentrating on a little-known case study, that of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, this article argues that this sort of categorisation is misplaced. The relationship between a flawed state power and genocide can be located. (DSE/DÜI)

Experience shows that it is hard for some poor countries to attain the Millennium Development Goals without addressing the challenges of security and governance. The nexus between armed conflict, fragile states, and the lack of progress on the MDGs is an emerging regional trend in West Africa. At least half the states in the subregion are either in post-conflict recovery or greatly weakened by creeping or endemic crisis situations. This article discusses the challenges faced by the MDGs via the impact of small arms and light weapons proliferation and subsequent regional security programs and it looks at the new phase in efforts to address regional insecurity in order to promote development. Adapted from the source document.

Argues that the Turkish Justice & Development Party (AKP) is pursuing a hidden agenda centered on creeping Islamization incompatible with a secular, democratic order & that US & EU support for the party is at the expense of liberal Muslims, who are genuine Western allies. The shallow character of Turkish secularism is touched on, & it is asserted that it suffers, to some extent, from a democratic deficit particularly under AKP leadership, which is more interested in democracy's procedure than political culture. Stating that the AKP rejects Europeanization, its efforts at de-Westernizing Turkey, embodied in a politics of cultural Islamization are noted. In terms of Turkey's accession to the EU, it is contended that civil reforms are less important than a Europeanization of Islam, particularly a Europeanization of the Turkish diaspora in Europe; however, EU policies ignore cultural challenges, leaving the diapsora & the Turkish population caught between Europeanization & Islamization. Using the legal controversy over the headscarf to illustrate, the entrenched AKP's societal desecularization is then briefly described, along with the ensuing political crisis. It is concluded that the US & EU must work to strengthen Turkish civil society & institutions. Adapted from the source document.

The new elements in the moral, intellectual, & religious atmosphere which came to pervade the US during the decade of the 1960's are explored. It is seen that these elements explain why the US found itself in revolutionary circumstances at that particular time. The most widely publicized aspect of the decade's religious history was the emergence of a radical movement in theology & ethics. The over-all ecclesiastical situation has also been profoundly altered, for Protestants, Catholics, & Jews alike. Many ancient modes of thinking were being altered in the 1960's. The changes seem to involve a deep shift in the presuppositional substructures of the Amer mind. They can be designated as metaphysical, moral, & soc: (1) a growing attachment to naturalism or 'secularism' that makes people suspicious of anything supernatural; (2) a creeping (or galloping) awareness of vast contradictions in US life between profession & performance, the ideal & the actual; & (3) increasing doubt re the capacity of present-day ecclesiastical, pol'al, soc, & educ'al instit's to rectify these contradictions. The reasons for these new positions are traced to the impact of sci, relativism & technology which began to be felt already in the 19th cent, & to the state of 'puritanical legalism' in the US which tended to be oblivious to the intellectual revolutions of the modern world. 5 catalysts propelled these changes: (i) The long-developing problems of unregulated Ur growth began to create environmental problems with which US pol'al & fiscal practices could not cope. (ii) Technological developments in agriculture & industry produced migrations of people that led the nat'l electorate to repudiate many of those arrangements that had long maintained the Protestant establishment & the WASP ascendancy in US life. (iii) Rapid technological & sci'fic advancements contributed another vital dimension to the nat'l mood. Their impact was enormously increased by sensational accomplishments that aroused the popular imagination (eg, the manned trip to the moon). (iv) The Cuban missile crisis, continued nuclear testing, attempts to achieve internat'l control of nuclear armaments seemed to underline the tentativity of mankind's earthly existence. (v) The drastic escalation of the war in Vietnam prevented an effective coping with the nation's problems of poverty & Ur dislocation. Modified HA.