One can neither solve a conflict nor a problem - or get rid of it - without a proper understanding of its root courses and features. Just condemning ISIS because it is brutal brings us nowhere near a solution.
Understanding is necessary and doesn't mean legitimising or supporting.
Understanding is simply smart. Condemnation may make you feel morally superior - but in this case also ignores the fact that there are many actors in our world who have killed many more people than ISIS has.
Condemnation is a deadend if you want to solve an issue, serves only to legitimise the present bombing - where there are better ways.
A doctor also doesn't just condemn a patient or curses the cancer cells; she or he deals professionally with a problem to be solved and a human being to be healed. Thus diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.
In its 29th year, TFF preactises this simple philosophy.
That's why this independent foundation can continue to deliver some of the most precise diagnoses and solutions - some 7000 articles on its website - where other get emotional for or against this or that party and ends up being trapped in advocating violence.
Here follows expert contributions from TFF Associates and we appreciate you reading, re-posting and you economic support if you appreciate:
Farhang Jahanpour
The threat of ISIS should be taken seriously
Farhang Jahanpour
Al-Baghdadi, self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State
Farhang Jahanpour
ISIS in a Sunni-Shia perspective
Johan Galtung
ISIS - Negotiations, not bombing
Johan Galtung
Christianity versus Islam - Countercyclicity
Johan Galtung
The Sunni-Shia conflict: Any solution?
Jan Oberg
Instead of Bombing ISIS - Part A: Some principles
Jan Oberg
Instead of bombing ISIS - Part B: 27 proposals
(In Danish: Her er dine alternativer til krigen, Helle)
Jan Oberg
