Mahmood Monshipouri is co-editor of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, based in Berkely, Calif., and professor of international relations at San Francisco State University.

Listen to a 12-minute American Public Media audio segment on “The Problem of Evil” from Feb. 15, 2002.

Read a July 23, 2011, column by Ken Chitwood about evil in the aftermath of the July 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway, posted on the website of the Houston Chronicle.

Read “Simply Evil,” a Sept. 5, 2011, column by Christopher Hitchens at Slate.com written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Read a September 11, 2011 essay on the problem of evil, written by Alan Wolfe and published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The European Forum for Restorative Justice aims to help establish and develop victim-offender mediation and other restorative justice practices throughout Europe.

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, based at the University of Notre Dame, is one of the world’s leading centers for the study of the causes of violent conflict and strategies for sustainable peace. Kroc Institute faculty and fellows conduct interdisciplinary research on a wide range of topics related to peace and justice.

Nazarene Compassionate Ministries in Kansas City, Mo., is a faith-based organization that provides abstinence and faithfulness programs and other AIDS services in Africa under a government contract.

Eugene F. Rivers is pastor of Pentecostal Azusa Christian Community (affiliated with the Church of God in Christ) in south Boston and president of Ella J. Baker House community organization in the Dorchester Four Corners neighborhood of Boston. Rivers co-founded the clergy-led National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, which is credited with helping to diminish gang violence in Boston and […]