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  • February 10, 2015
    Military commission process at Guantánamo 'inherently unfair'

    A US military court hearing about five alleged plotters of the 11 September 2001 attacks was abruptly halted this week.

  • September 11, 2013
    The line from 9/11 to Syria needs to be broken

    I vividly recall the first television pictures of the terrible and criminal attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on what has become known as 9/11. I was at the University of Birmingham on 11 September 2001, attending a churches' conference on China. It was hard to take in what was going on, but we were all vaguely aware as we viewed these unfathomable images that the reaction to these events would shape the course of history for years to come; and so it has proved.

  • September 18, 2011
    Book examines post-9/11 spiritual transformations

    Among the most profound effects of the 11 September terror attacks in the US were the spiritual changes undergone by some people affected.

  • September 12, 2011
    9/11 and the use of memory

    The memory of 9/11 can be used to liberate ourselves for the creation of a better future, says Jill Segger

  • September 11, 2011
    Changing perspectives from 9/11, ten years after

    Over the past ten years we have witnessed the birth of the neologism '9/11' and the horrid and inaccurate phrase 'global war on terror'. Some of what happened in those ten intervening years is now history, says Harry Hagopian. But much of it continues to resonate across the globe, calling us to a change of outlook and action. Revolutions and popular revolts across the Middle East and North Africa region vindicate the standpoint that real changes should come from within and do not necessarily get imposed militarily upon a whole people anymore.

  • September 11, 2011
    A prayer for the people - 11 September 2001/11

    The World Council of Churches has produced the following prayer to mark the tenth anniversary of the '9/1' attacks in the USA, on 11 September 2001, and the conflict and war that has continued since then.

  • September 11, 2011
    Ten years after 9/11

    The head of the the World Council of Churches, which brings together over 340 major Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican, Peace Church and indigenous Christian communions in conversation with the Roman Catholic Church worldwide, is from Norway - a country which has been exposed to the horror of terrorism recently.

  • September 11, 2011
    9/11 and the lost decade

    What are the principal lessons of the ten years of war since the 11 September 2001 attacks? Paul Rogers, professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, gives some crisp answers. He has played a prominent role in the Oxford Research Group, has written extensively on related global and regional issues, and his first openDemocracy column was published a few days after 9/11.

  • September 9, 2011
    World churches' leader remembers 9/11 and its military aftermath

    The World Council of Churches' General Secretary has sent out a message honouring the victims of 9/11 and its massive military aftermath.

  • September 9, 2011
    British church leaders criticise use of military force in response to 9/11

    A decade on from the 9/11 attacks, senior British Free Church leaders are calling on the Government to re-examine its use of responsive military force.