The Myth of Microfinance
The myth of microfinance is powerful. The idea that providing small loans to people in poverty will alleviate their conditions both satisfies our longing to be ...
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Constructing a Bogeyman: Osama bin Laden as a Totem for Global Muslim Insurgency
Since 9/11, the War on Terror has created no greater cult of personality than that surrounding Osama bin Laden. The late Saudi has become part political icon, p...
Dehumanization: How the Most Needy Bear the Ignorance of the Powerful in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey Trip Summary. “The terrorists, they t...
What the Ocean Swallowed
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey Trip Summary. The ocean has always be...
Political and Economic Sustainability of Turkey’s Refugee Response
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey Trip Summary. In 2015, as a response ...
Why the Open Doors? How Turkey May Benefit from Accepting Syrian Refugees
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey Trip Summary. Reports have been emerg...
Turkey and the European Union Concerning the Syrian Refugee Crisis
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey Trip Summary. Background: The Europea...
Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Human Reality
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey Trip Summary. Eight days into the Tur...
The Study of The Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Context of Turkey
Trip Summary: YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip to Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey During our 11-days stay at Turkey, we had the incredible opportuni...
The Persistence of the FARC Conflict
This comment is a continuation of the YIRA Winter 2016 International Trip Group’s Bogotá, Colombia Trip Summary. The persistence of the FARC conflict in Colombi...