Contemporary Debate on Peace, Politics and Religion: A Quranic Perspective

In the contemporary era of conspiracy theories and practices through media prejudice, focused scholarship and policy oriented publication, Islam in general and Muslims in specific are being tinted as anti-peace and social prosperity entities. Quran as the primary source of Islamic jurisprudence provides principals for every aspect of society including polity one. This study focuses on basic Quranic injections regarding politics and their role in developing peace in contemporary society. The compatibility of Islam and democracy is one of the hottest debates among researchers of political science are also to be focusedon the study. Applyinghermeneuticsmethod and analyzing thought of key Muslim political thinkers and interpreters, this paper concludes that Quranic injections of polity and state are a vibrant source of developing peace and prosperity in historical perspective and same applicable in contemporary society, but hegemony forces feeling fear of Islamic resurgence state that Islam and democracy are incompatible and these Quranic sources are being used for creating panic in the present world.

Outcomes of Trauma Exposure Among Adolescents of Pakistan: Role of Ptsd and Social Support

This study aimed to examine the outcomes such as Delinquency, Prosociality and Future Orientation as a consequence of trauma exposure in traumatized adolescents with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) along with examining the mediating role of PTSD. A total of 600 adolescents (391 boys and 209 girls) of age ranged from 12 -18 years including traumatized (n=300) and non-traumatized adolescents (n=300) were randomly selected from different regions of Pakistan. The data was collected by using Self Report Delinquency Scale, Prosocial Personality Battery, Children’s Future Orientation Scale, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and UCLA PTSD RI (DSM 5). PTSD was significantly and positively associated with delinquency (r= .65) and pro-sociality (r= .67), while negatively associated with future orientation (r= -.51). The results further explained the mediating role of PTSD between the predictor traumatic exposure and outcomes future orientation, prosociality and delinquency in addition to the moderating role of social support. Further analysis showed that traumatized adolescents were higher on PTSD (M= 69.1, SD= 4.04) and delinquency (M= 60.1, SD= 30.6) whereas were lower on social support (M= 31.6, SD= 23.9), future orientation (M= 52.7, SD= 20.0) and prosociality (M= 156, SD= 69.2). Non-traumatized adolescents were lower on PTSD (M= 19.6, SD= 4.33) and delinquency (M= 24.6, SD= 4.72) whereas higher on social support (M= 60.2, SD= 3.09), future orientation (M= 68.5, SD= 2.67) and prosociality (M= 243, SD= 7.92). Females scored higher on social support (M= 60.4, SD= 2.9), prosociality (M= 242.5, SD= 8.0) and PTSD (M= 43.4, SD= 25.4) whereas males were found higher on future orientation (M= 68.6, SD= 2.5) and delinquency (M= 47.7, SD= 29.7). Males scored lower on social support (M= 37.0, SD= 24.2), prosociality (M= 188.2, SD= 69.5) and PTSD (M= 38.6, SD= 24.2) whereas females were found lower on future orientation (M= 49.6, SD= 20.5) and delinquency (M= 23.9, SD= 4.6). The healthy potential for having a normal adolescence in Pakistan is unlikely in the current circumstances and the future psychological well-being of Pakistani children/ adolescents is at risk of being compromised by on-going traumatic experiences. This study indicates the urge for the timely management of the outcomes as a consequence of exposure to traumatic events.