Open Dialogue Research Journal
The race to choose the next United Nations secretary general has acquired an uncomfortable test case. The candidacy of Lana Nusseibeh, a minister of state of the United Arab Emirates and a former UAE ambassador to the UN, is reported to be gaining momentum and endorsements. It has also provoked […]
Israelis voted last Tuesday in their first national election since Hamas’s attack of 7 October 2023. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 10 p.m. local time. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been in office for 19 years and is Israel’s longest-serving leader, it was a […]
Near Kiev, in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka, on 2 November local residents surrounded a private house after reports that people were being held inside. Police and National Guard units initially blocked access; clashes followed. Several injured men were brought out. Among those found was a 14-year-old. Kirill Budanov arrived, spoke with the […]
On October 19, 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower imposed a trade embargo on Cuba in an attempt to force Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government to follow Washington’s instructions. Exactly one week later, on October 26, Swan radio station, located on the Swan Islands off the coast of Honduras, broadcast the […]
The United States must face its troubling reality: racial discrimination continues to threaten the safety and dignity of students at college campuses across the country. A recent incident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has once again exposed the gap between America’s rhetoric of the rule […]
Tomorrow, October 23, Hungary marks the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution. While official commemorations focus on that date, the intellectual catalyst occurred a day earlier. On October 22, students at the Budapest Technical University gathered to draft the famous Sixteen Points. Their demands were clear: the withdrawal of Soviet […]
Part I Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, al-Qaeda no longer looks like the organization that carried them out. Its numbers have grown, its territory has expanded, and its center of operations has moved thousands of miles from where it began – yet, by most measures, its capacity and […]
A young woman suffers years of sexual abuse as a child and is sentenced to death for murder at the age of 18. She spends nearly three decades on death row, much of that time in near-solitary confinement, before the authorities decide to execute her. The woman, now 50 years […]
On September 30, 2026, the last US and coalition personnel departed Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq. Operation Inherent Resolve -the 12-year mission launched to defeat ISIS- was formally over. The next day, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi stood before the nation and declared October 1 “Sovereignty Day,” announcing […]
On December 3, two traditions risk combining in foul if remarkable fashion. In the United States, an execution is set to take place with a ghoulish offering of livestreaming through the World Wide Web. This, at least, is the sprightly proposal from Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense (or […]
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