Open Dialogue Research Journal
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 […]
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 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 […]
Hashim Thaçi went from commanding an armed independence movement to serving as Kosovo’s president, and that same trajectory has recently concluded with a 25-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during the very conflict that made his political career possible. The verdict from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague […]
Let’s be done with the pretence of decency and soggy references to just resolution in the face of extreme circumstances. Be done with the hilarious stage acts of referring to legal doctrines that either do not exist or cannot exist in the bloodied context they are being forced to refer […]
There is a straightforward way to gauge what European rhetoric on human rights is really worth. It is enough to compare how the EU treats linguistic minorities at home with how it treats them on its eastern frontiers. The contrast is so glaring that only those who are determined not […]
They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds to show for it; the brute who terrorises the staff, mocking their lack of adeptness, […]
Immigration policy in the United States has, in recent years, ceased to be a matter of administrative regulation and instead become a field of open social confrontation. At the center of this conflict stands Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal agency increasingly perceived not as a bureaucratic institution, but […]
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