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3 days ago · Politicians in the Mediterranean region must look at ways conflicting rival interests could be peacefully resolved, creating trustful platforms to be the shared space. The region must become a free space for peaceful coexistence, tolerance, and dialogue. Presented by Yara El Harake at the IPB World Peace Congress held in Barcelona, 2021.
5 days ago · In 1941 the governments finally reached an accord over the boundary. Costa Rica - Independence, Democracy, Nature: When Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1821, Costa Rica, with other parts of Central America, joined the short-lived Mexican Empire. In 1823 Costa Rica helped create the United Provinces of Central America but ...
5 days ago · The Peace Democrats, dubbed “Copperheads” by Republicans after a poisonous snake, braided together three coalitions: immigrants, especially Irish and German Catholics, who had been the target of ugly discrimination by nativists and Protestant reformers and who had gravitated into the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s; people in the Lower Midwest with family ties to the South; and ...
4 days ago · From August 11 to August 14, 1980, the Democratic National Convention was held in New York City at Madison Square Garden. This year, Democratic primary candidates included the incumbent President ...
3 days ago · South Africa - Apartheid, Democracy, Equality: The government was successful at containing opposition for almost a decade, and foreign investment that had been briefly withdrawn in the early 1960s returned. Such conditions proved to be only temporary, however. A new phase of resistance began in 1973 when Black trade unions organized a series of strikes for higher wages and improved working ...
5 days ago · Joining Justice & Peace. Back in 1994, Dube was a parishioner of the Christ the King cathedral in Johannesburg, where he joined the parish’s Justice & Peace (J&P) group. This is where his interest in social justice was nurtured. In the run-up to the 1994 South African general elections he was appointed an electoral officer.
4 days ago · As a core initiative of the most powerful voice in Washington on transatlantic affairs, the Center for European Policy Analysis Democratic Resilience program aims to support policymakers – in government, civil society, business, and the media, in North America and in Europe – in achieving three vital aims: Countering authoritarian threats ...
