How to criticize Islam? "Innocence of Muslims" and the war of representations in the mirror of the clash between radical Islam and Islamophobia

Prof. Dr. Peter Robert Demant é historiador e observador de Relações Internacionais, especializado em questões do Oriente Médio, mundo muçulmano e relações Islã-Ocidente. Ph.D. em História Moderna e Contemporânea na Universidade de Amsterdã (1988), e Livre Docência em História Contemporânea na Universidade de São Paulo USP (2007). Atualmente é professor associado da USP no Departamento de História e também leciona no Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI-USP). Demant também é coordenador do Laboratório de Estudos Asiáticos (LEA-USP) e responsável pelo Grupo de Trabalho Oriente Médio e Mundo Muçulmano (GTOMMM). É editor-responsável da Revista Malala, publicação deste mesmo grupo

Seeking consensus in German forest conservation: An analysis of contemporary concepts

Setting operational conservation objectives is a major challenge for effective biodiversity conservation worldwide. To analyse forest conservation objectives in Germany in a transparent manner and to achieve a consistent and consensual framework, we systematically classified conservation objectives suggested in concepts by different stakeholders. We analysed 79 biodiversity and forest conservation concepts of different stakeholder groups at various scales and applied textual content analysis and Dirichlet regression to reach a high degree of transferability and applicability. Our analysis revealed a broad consensus concerning forest conservation across stakeholders and scales, albeit with slight differences in focus, but we detected a scale-related mismatch. A wide array of conservation objectives covered social, biotic and abiotic natural resources. Conservation of species, ecosystems and structural elements in forests were found to be of primary importance across stakeholders and scale levels. Shortcomings in the conservation concepts were found in addressing genetic diversity, abiotic resources and socio-cultural objectives. Our results show that problems in forest conservation may be rooted in trade-offs between aims, targeting mismatch across scale levels and insufficient implementation of objectives