Framework for peace pathways and conflict transformation for conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan

Conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan stayed on the margins of the ‘waron terror’ throughout the period following the events of 11 September 2001. This conflict is embedded inthe narratives of occupation as well as historical grievances, terrorism, developmental discrimination, andidentity crises – all of which have helped perpetuate it. With the shifting of the Al Qaeda leadership fromAfghanistan to the tribal areas after the US-led war on Afghanistan in October 2001, meta-narratives havebeen employed to advance local grievances. This paper develops the framework of peace pathways andconflict transformation which involves an in-depth analysis of conflict and reasons for its intractability,taking into account not only socio-political and economic needs and interests, but also addressing the rootcause (or causes) of the conflict

Book Review: Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women

Review of Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women by Parin Doss

The rights of women in Islam: The question of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres for women’s rights and empowerment in Muslim societies

The question of women rights and empowerment in Islam are one of the most controversial issueswithin the Islamic schema of human rights. The rights of women as given in the Qura’n and the traditionsof Prophet Muhammad were a revolutionary step in the 7th century Arabia. However, the context drivenreforms of rights of women in Islam is subject to many challenges in the traditional Muslim societies. Thispaper examines the question of women rights in Islam based on ‘public’ and ‘private’ sphere of life and itsimpact on the question of women empowerment. Drawing on hermeneutic–relativist approach, the articlereveals the dialectical nature of interpretation of rights of women in Islam. The article also examines thequestion of classical and reformist understanding of rights and empowerment and suggest an approachfor understanding of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres of life according to the cultural context of the Muslimsocieties

Framework for peace pathways and conflict transformation for conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan

Conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan stayed on the margins of the ‘waron terror’ throughout the period following the events of 11 September 2001. This conflict is embedded inthe narratives of occupation as well as historical grievances, terrorism, developmental discrimination, andidentity crises – all of which have helped perpetuate it. With the shifting of the Al Qaeda leadership fromAfghanistan to the tribal areas after the US-led war on Afghanistan in October 2001, meta-narratives havebeen employed to advance local grievances. This paper develops the framework of peace pathways andconflict transformation which involves an in-depth analysis of conflict and reasons for its intractability,taking into account not only socio-political and economic needs and interests, but also addressing the rootcause (or causes) of the conflict

The rights of women in Islam: The question of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres for women’s rights and empowerment in Muslim societies

The question of women rights and empowerment in Islam are one of the most controversial issueswithin the Islamic schema of human rights. The rights of women as given in the Qura’n and the traditionsof Prophet Muhammad were a revolutionary step in the 7th century Arabia. However, the context drivenreforms of rights of women in Islam is subject to many challenges in the traditional Muslim societies. Thispaper examines the question of women rights in Islam based on ‘public’ and ‘private’ sphere of life and itsimpact on the question of women empowerment. Drawing on hermeneutic–relativist approach, the articlereveals the dialectical nature of interpretation of rights of women in Islam. The article also examines thequestion of classical and reformist understanding of rights and empowerment and suggest an approachfor understanding of ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres of life according to the cultural context of the Muslimsocieties

Cystic Fibrosis - An Ever Evolving Challenge

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease that results from mutations in a large single gene located on chromosome 7. More than 2000 different mutations in the gene have been identified to have caused the disease. Most of these mutations are exceedingly rare and therefore not a part of CF screening or all testing panels. This case discusses an adult female with a history of asthma, bronchiectasis, pseudomonas colonization, and respiratory failure on chronic oxygen who presented to the ED with sudden onset shortness of breath, fever, chills, body aches, nonproductive cough, and headache. The patient\u27s condition clinically improved with treatment and was discharged on day three. The patient had previously undergone a laboratory evaluation of bronchiectasis. Due to the patient\u27s history of bronchiectasis and pseudomonas colonization, there was a decision to reconsider the possibility of CF. The patient underwent a routine cystic fibrosis genetic testing panel which subsequently confirmed a CFTR mutation. The discussion highlights the importance of remaining vigilant for signs of CF, to remain open to the possibility of CF or CFTR related disorders, when patients have had evaluations for such that predate current testing standards or capabilities

Exploring Empathy In A Dentist-Patient Relationship. Conclusions From Qualitative Exploratory Research Of Practicing Dentists

Objective: This study explored the factors influencing the development of empathy in a dentist-patient relationship. Design: An exploratory qualitative study. Place and duration of the study: Khyber Medical University KPK, Pakistan October 2019 to April 2020.was conducted during 2019-2020 Methodology: This exploratory qualitative study was conducted during 2019-2020. It was conducted on 12 dental surgeons, recruited from four major dental clinical specialties. A purposive sampling technique was used. In-depth interviews were conducted through a semi-structured format. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed, using the thematic analysis framework. Results: Three themes were extracted from data. 1) Institutionalization of empathy, indicating a need for incorporating empathy in undergraduate and postgraduate dental curriculum, 2) Barriers in the path of empathetic attitude, including a variety of factors hampering the development of empathy in a dentist-patient relationship and 3) Cultivating a Culture of empathy for better health care provision, indicating a need for changing the collective attitude of all health care professionals, administrative staff, and students. The participants of the study observed that development of empathy in a dentist-patient relationship includes a wide range of factors, ranging from curricular, personal, social, organizational, and cultural. These factors elaborate that empathy is a multidimensional phenomenon with roots deeply entrenched in professional and personal domains

The Scriptural Analysis of Environmental Sciences in Islam

This study offers a scriptural and eco-critical analysis of environmental themes in the Qur'an, exploring the intersection between ecology and Islamic theology. As environmental challenges intensify globally, religious texts are being revisited through the lens of ecocriticism. The Qur'an presents a view of nature as divinely imbued with meaning and purpose, emphasizing its sanctity, the interconnectedness of all creation, and the moral responsibility of humankind as stewards of the earth. By analyzing selected Quranic passages, this research highlights the ethical and theological foundations for environmental consciousness in Islam and contributes to the growing discourse on religion and ecology

Cocaine as a Rare Cause of Cholecystitis

Cholecystitis, inflammation of the gallbladder, is diagnosed in approximately 200,000 people in the US each year. Cocaine is an illicit drug that is wildly abused in the US, GI complications such as acute pancreatitis, colitis, bowel perforation, mesenteric ischemia, and biliary tree obstruction have been reported in limited studies. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reported cases of cocaine-induced cholecystitis and no established treatment plans to date, however, we strongly believe that our patient’s cocaine use resulted in cholecystitis. Hence, we wanted to shed some light on the possible side effects of cocaine on the gall bladder

Distributed mining of convoys in large scale datasets

Tremendous increase in the use of the mobile devices equipped with the GPS and other location sensors has resulted in the generation of a huge amount of movement data. In recent years, mining this data to understand the collective mobility behavior of humans, animals and other objects has become popular. Numerous mobility patterns, or their mining algorithms have been proposed, each representing a specific movement behavior. Convoy pattern is one such pattern which can be used to find groups of people moving together in public transport or to prevent traffic jams. A convoy is a set of at least m objects moving together for at least k consecutive time stamps where m and k are user-defined parameters. Existing algorithms for detecting convoy patterns do not scale to real-life dataset sizes. Therefore in this paper, we propose a generic distributed convoy pattern mining algorithm called DCM and show how such an algorithm can be implemented using the MapReduce framework. We present a cost model for DCM and a detailed theoretical analysis backed by experimental results. We show the effect of partition size on the performance of DCM. The results from our experiments on different data-sets and hardware setups, show that our distributed algorithm is scalable in terms of data size and number of nodes, and more efficient than any existing sequential as well as distributed convoy pattern mining algorithm, showing speed-ups of up to 16 times over SPARE, the state of the art distributed co-movement pattern mining framework. DCM is thus able to process large datasets which SPARE is unable to.SCOPUS: ar.jDecretOANoAutActifinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe