In the Münster Peace Treaty of 1648, the signing powers initially agreed on the general understanding of the peace. They considered best to start with an amnesty. This meant forgetting about everything what had happened during the war in order ...
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) addressed the ‘spiritual and moral heritage’ of the European Community, which is founded upon the ‘indivisible, universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and ...
It was on 14 December 2018, seventeen years after the 2001 armed conflict in North Macedonia, when the first joint commemoration of the civil victims took place in the village of Lipkovo. The main actors of the commemoration were Stojanče Angelov, ...
The 2001 conflict in North Macedonia was, and still is, commemorated in two distinct manners. In the early 2010s, a massive constructing project called ‘Skopje 2014’ was launched in Skopje. The project contains more than 137 memorial objects ...
For a long time, Low Countries authorities had supervised the religious convictions of their inhabitants. In 1566, a large group of people had destroyed Catholic images and statues. The Catholic government of the Low Countries strongly monitored and ...
The first two articles of the edict of Nantes deal with the memory of the religious wars in France. The first article forbids prosecuting any deeds done between 1585 and 1598 that were related to the conflict. The second article prohibits discussion ...
