JBS Vol 20. Num 1. 2018 - Justice for All: Resolving Contradictions in Political Development

This article is designed to address such questions as how applying the most fundamental human values of justice and fairness could alleviate growing inequality in mostly developing nations that undermine sustainable development, thereby containing ideological extremism/terrorism, and assuring peaceful co-existence of societies. Could our serious efforts to resolve such conflicts create a new world, MAP: Mutually Assured Peace? Another question that will be addressed is whether women’s empowerment, by allocating needed resources in education, skill-building and healthcare, could help make the conflicts between ideological extremism and peaceful co-existence possible. To illustrate the question of peaceful co-existence through a case study method, Bangladesh, the third-largest Muslim majority country in the Islamic World (seventh in the world), has been chosen to elucidate.