Introducing Inroads 23.

Inroads has become a quarterly. Well, sort of. Feeling that six months between issues is too long, in March we put together a 34-page package that we made available only through email and our website.

Its main feature was an exchange on Pakistan between Doug McArthur, whose article on that troubled country appeared in the Winter/Spring issue, and John Richards. The exchange discussed prospects for the country after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and raised questions about democracy, stability and economic growth and how they relate to one another. Also in the package were highlights of an Inroads listserv discussion about polls and political leaders and a review by Richard Nimijean of a book on the state of Canada's universities.

We emailed a newsletter with a link to the package to all subscribers for whom we have email addresses. If you didn't receive the newsletter but would like to, please send your email address to us at inroads@canada.com.

We will email you our next newsletter in September as well. You can also find the March package at www.inroadsjournal.ca/ pdfs/Inroads newsletter 01 mar_2008.pdf.

Meanwhile, in this print issue, we turn our attention from Pakistan to another troubled part of the world, Africa. Robert Cohen has spent the last five years in South Africa as a housing consultant, and has been a witness to the country's post-apartheid transformation. Despite the terrible toll of the HIV-AIDS pandemic (and the government's inadequate response), he finds South Africa's story basically a hopeful one. Filmmakers Dave Klassen and Rick Gamble have documented the effects of the devastating (and underreported) war in northern Uganda--and the remarkable efforts at reconciliation currently taking place. We present their findings in words and pictures. Finally, in the last year Don Cayo has travelled to three sites of genocide: the Killing Field of Cambodia, the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz and, most recently, two churches in Rwanda where Hutus massacred Tutsis. He reports on who is visiting these sites and what meaning we can draw from them.

Three of our front section writers engage a theme that has been ongoing in Inroads, notably in our coverage of the "reasonable accommodation" debate in Quebec in the Winter/Spring issue: the place of religion in our public life. Speaking as a lifelong atheist, Reg ...