Publications Review 22.10.2013

In this issue you will find: World in Moderation, ethics in medicine, elections in Australia, Syria talks, Pakistan-Afganistan security issues.

The 6th Issue of Newsletter of Kuala Lumpur-based Global Movement of Moderates Foundation (GMOMF) the “World in Moderation” was published on the 12th of October. The GMOMF mission is to foster peace between nations by promoting moderation and fighting religious extremism. The Newsletter is available here.

Malaysia-based author Firoz Abdul Hamid has recently published in her column "Ethics In Business" an article on ethics in medicine “What moves the conscience when mortality is at stake?”

Recent Parliamentary elections in Australia are in the center of attention of the Dimplomatist magazine. Here you can read an article on this topic by Peter Mayer.

Other News republishes an article by Jim Lobe on how fractured opposition can derail the talks on Syria.
Lobe quotes Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma:
“I assume Assad will send someone to Geneva, and the Coalition will, too, because no one wants America to blame them for boycotting, but it will all be a fig leaf for what is becoming the de facto partition of Syria, because that’s what’s happening on the ground.”

New article on Pakistan-Afganistan security issues by professor Ijaz Khan from University of Peshawar was recently published online. It is available for purchase here.