This video portrays football superstar Liverpool FC striker Mohamed Salah as a positive role model for kids in Egypt. As an openly Muslim athlete, he plays a pivotal role in reshaping negative perceptions of Islam in the UK and ...
The Belfast Agreement has certainly taken most of the violence off the streets of our cities, towns and villages. And our whole society is unambiguously the better for that. Yet the deep-seated divisions are still there, with little sign of them ...
Cultural diversity is part of God’s purpose for us. In our conflict God has no favourites, and values the diversity of culture and identity that is present in our community. We too must respect this diversity. Every culture is ...
According to the agreement, basic human rights are affirmed and would be enshrined in legislation, and economic, social and cultural issues would be addressed by Government and by any future Northern Ireland Assembly. …It points a way ...
‘Relationships in the northern part of Ireland have been described over many centuries as “sectarian”. In large part this stems from the wars of religion that broke out across Western Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
‘The parties affirm their commitment to the mutual respect, the civil rights and the religious liberties of everyone in the community. Against the background of the recent history of communal conflict, the parties affirm in ...
After the death of King Sigismund August in 1572, the nobility of Poland and Lithuania had to elect a new king. This election took place in a time of religious conflicts and political instability. On their meeting in Warsaw in January 1573, the ...
Article 7 of the Polish Minority Treaty, signed on 28 June 1919, reads as follows: ‘All Polish nationals shall be equal before the law and shall enjoy the same civil and political rights without distinction as to race, language ...
On 28 June 1919, the same day when the Treaty of Versailles was signed, the Polish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference concluded a settlement which would become known as a Little Treaty of Versailles or the Polish Minority Treaty. The Treaty ...
In October 1920, the Italian delegate to the League of Nations, Tommasso Tittoni, suggested the so-called ‘system of petitions’. He intended the petitions to be a tool for addressing certain violations of the League of Nations’ minority ...
In November 2019, the Forum Civil Peace Service – Macedonia Program, as well as the local Centre for Research of Nationalism and Culture and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Skopje, published the trilingual book Revisiting 2001, a ...
The Ohrid Framework Agreement is a settlement that ended a seven-month conflict in North Macedonia in 2001. The Agreement opens up with the following five Basic Principles: ‘1.1. The use of violence in pursuit of political aims ...
The Peace of Münster settled the long political and religious conflict that had taken place in the Low Countries. It arranged for the Seven United Provinces to become an officially recognised independent state. The Southern Low Countries ...
