Since 1997,  Jonathan's columns have been published on The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Justice blog. You can find them all here.

  • Jan 3, 2017
  • 3 min

War and elections in the Congo.

The West African state of the Congo has always been taking one step forward, two steps back. This goes back to the days when Congo became...

  • Dec 27, 2016
  • 3 min

Being optimistic about 2017.

What you see depends on where you sit. There are the pessimists who see President-elect Donald Trump who said in his tweet about the need...

  • Dec 20, 2016
  • 3 min

Trump’s mistaken view of Islam.

An abiding fear for Donald Trump is that the Middle East dictators' successors in power will be militant Islamists who once elected will...