“Outstandingly established”

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Building of the Humboldt University of Berlin © Julia Steinbrecht (KNA)

One year after the launch of the Institutes of Catholic Theology and Islamic Theology, the Humboldt University HU in Berlin has drawn a positive balance sheet. Both institutions have "established themselves in an outstanding way," says HU President Sabine Kunst.

"The interdisciplinary dialog in research and teaching practiced here is trend-setting for our university."She is particularly pleased that the new colleagues are also in demand from the outset as a source of inspiration for the current social debates in the capital.

Institute for Catholic Theology

The executive director of the Institute for Catholic Theology, Georg Essen, explained, "Together with the other theologies, our institute stands for religions to bring their own respective traditions into the search for coexistence in our society in an enlightened way."For example, the Institute of Catholic Theology is working with the Islam Institute and the School of Jewish Theology (University of Potdsam) on a joint interdisciplinary research program. As a further focus, it has the training of religious education teachers. In addition, it conceives a bachelor's degree course "Religion and Society".

Institute for Islamic Theology

Founding director Michael Borgolte described the start of the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology as "promising". Demand for the new subject has far exceeded expectations, he said. Last summer semester, the institute reportedly had about 130 students. According to Borgolte, networking with mosque communities in Berlin was also "enthusiastically received".

"The College of Professors convinced by innovative research projects that critically work on the traditions in terms of the needs of society," Borgolte said. Recently, the Islam Institute launched a first research project, entitled "Ways to an Ethics", which focuses on sexual ethics ies. The cooperation partner is the Institute for Studies of the Culture and Religion of Islam at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main.

America’s new prasident makes it clear that in the woman’s house now there is another sound

A recent in space seems more likely since Russia on Washington’s planner for the "Son of Star Wars"-Rocket defense shield has reacted with a doubling of his defense budget.

About $ 115 billion, Russia wants to invest in the next ten years to ensure that the national missile defense system (NMD) with its rockets can penetrate (US national rocket defense). Although this sum falls slightly to the US defense budget of € 300 billion alone this year, but it was sufficient for the development of new rocket technologies as well as the expensive troopsmobilization that Putin has already requested. This step became a juvening for rising expenses for Russia as recently in times of cold war.

According to Sergei Krushchev, the son of the former Soviet prassident, was the highlight of the Cold War, the Cuba crisis, essentially "The result of a cultural misunderstanding". The stationing of the missiles in Cuba was then "as a signal that we are recognized as equivalent", thought. Nikita Krushchow had expected America to accept this step, as Russia had accepted American missiles near Turkey. "My father wanted to send a political embassy, but that was a mistake."

At the moment, Russia’s this year’s defense budget is about $ 7 billion, but will probably still increase during the year. According to Strana Report, this is part of the ten-year plan to formate the armed force, which Putin has signed last week.

This Tuesday then Putin wrote a letter to the new Prasident Bush, in which he congratulates him at the expense and expresses the hope that the mutual relationships were also properly projected by good will and the Russian-American dialogue was further developed. The new American administration will hardly get involved in discussions before not yet announced other details.

In an interview with the New York Times last week Bush said Bush, Russia should focus on the dismantling of his nuclear weapons as long as it does not prove that support and investment can also use more productive.

According to experts, the Russians have two practicable opportunities to break through the massive missile defense system: they can equip their latest topol M-long-distance weapons with multiple powered or develop new intercontinental rockets and thus replace the current SS-18 missiles. However, the Start II Weapon Control Law was injured – Russia threatens to ignore the contract, the US should adhere to its plan for the NMD.

The German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping has such a doubt: "The financing and technical transfer of such a strategic missile defense is currently not feasible." Not only from Germany, but also from many other parts of Europe, doubts about the plan, which could spark the NATO, provoked Russia and China – and so the 30-year efforts could destroy a strategic abruming.

The defense missiles of a successful National Missile Defense System had to have the enemy attackers even at a speed of up to approx. 16.000 km / h meet – anti-detectors not yet included. That sounds hard, but has only worked once in previous tests (test for missile defense badge failed).

The new US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has to expect violent opposition from the Congress, as long as the NMD does not yet proven to be effective. The new missiles threatened by Russia were able to scare this plan very well.

"The militar again, I think for one of my most important tasks." George W. Bush

When she took office in January 2006, Liberia's president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf broke a taboo. She confessed to being raped. In a country like Liberia this was particularly significant. During 14 years of civil war (1989-2003), rebels and government troops systematically used sexual violence as a weapon. And to this day, women and girls are brutally abused in the West African country.

United Nations estimates that up to three-quarters of Liberian women have been victims of sexual violence. For a long time it was not talked about. But since the now 69-year-old "Ma Ellen" became president, abuse has been an ie in Liberia. On streets and house walls, the government put up posters with painted scenes of violence: "Good men don't rape," or "Rape is a crime!".One of the strictest abuse laws in the world is intended to deter potential perpetrators and ensure fairer punishments – up to life imprisonment. Radio information campaigns are used to try to encourage women to report their rapists.Liberia's women have become much more self-confident, says Karin Griese, trauma specialist for the German aid organization medica mondiale. But: "It sometimes takes years for the women to talk about their suffering." Most withdrew. And when they talked about it, it was often because they did not perceive the abuse as their own experience.So was Meima Ballah. The young woman, whose age can range from 15 to 25, hardly stands out in the hustle and bustle of the camp for returnees from Sierra Leone. Her dull, quickly digressing gaze, monotone voice and stooped posture hint at her history. She has her younger brother with her. "Where the rest of my family is, I don't know," she says unemotionally. "I was raped during the war. After that I fled." And digs out of her back pocket a medical certificate strained almost to illegibility as she begins to enumerate medical details.Annie Jones-Demen, Liberia's deputy minister for gender equality, explains that her country's society stigmatizes women who have been raped. That is why many victims remained silent. "Often women destroy the evidence of rape because they fear being excluded." The government wants to counteract this. "But change takes time." This confirms Sybille Fezer of medica mondiale. "Awareness of the ie is growing, but it is a very long process."The many years of war destroyed social norms. There is little understanding of right and wrong, he said. Fezer: "Victims aged 4 to 70 came to us." Although the general conditions in Liberia are better than elsewhere thanks to the government, there is a lack of money, policemen, judges and care. The Concerned Christian Community (CCC), a Christian organization that cared for hundreds of women after the war, can tell you a thing or two about it. In the region around Arthington, the birthplace of ex-warlord and former Liberian President Charles Taylor, CCC organized women's meetings. "At the moment we don't have any more money for this," social worker Jartu Freeman laments.A church built by Baptist Taylor, of all people, served as the women's meeting place. The former dictator and rebel leader now faces a war crimes tribunal in The Hague for atrocities in neighboring Sierra Leone.

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