Social Cohesion

Hard Truths from Lee Kuan Yew

First printed in 2011, and reprinted in 2023, “Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going” is a question and answer style book based on interviews conducted with Lee Kuan Yew. The discussions were held over many sessions (edited by Kwang, Ibrahim, Hoong, Lim, Low, Lin and Chan). The interesting part about this book is that it […]

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The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad

Recent scholarship has sought to gather and analyze what was suggested to be the agreements made in the early years of Islam with other faith communities. The veracity of these documents was a question (not a new question). In “The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad: From Shared Historical Memory to Peaceful Co-Existence” (2023), Ibrahim Zein […]

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Logan Cochrane

Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.

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