Dr. Alex Caeiro will describe the modern legal trajectory of Qatar. The seminar will highlight the competition between the civil and shar'i judiciaries over legal authority. It will seek to explain the appeal of sharia courts for Qatar's modernizing society during the second half of the twentieth century.
The 2023 CILE Winter School will be hosted in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), focusing on topics related to armed conflict ethics. Not only is this topic important as it brings forth discussions on maintaining ethics in violent and difficult situations, but it is also an issue that is relevant to the current position of Muslims in the context of the Global War on Terror (GWOT).
The field of governance, both in policy and in administration, encompasses various sciences and traditions to address the demands and challenges of the human social structure. However, current international standards in this area are largely defined by the dominant Western paradigm at the exclusion of all other religious and cultural traditions.
This online event will highlight how the similarities between International Humanitarian Law and Islamic law are not coincidental, but the evidence that there are universal values and an important part of most religious and other worldviews.
Speaker:
Dr. Ahmed Al-Dawoody, International Committee of the Red Cross.