Culture

Over many centuries, Albanians have been mostly followers of Islam, Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy. There are also other smaller religious communities, including Muslim Bektashi, Protestantism, and Judaism. Christianity and Islam, have coexisted in Albania for centuries. Tolerance is a characteristic...

Dialogue between different faiths is increasingly being used as a means of harnessing religions’ capacity to promote coexistence and shared values. The effectiveness of dialogue is rarely considered and in any case, is hard to measure. This paper wants to...

In the wake of the events of 9/11, there has emerged a now significant body of literature that seeks to account for the “return” or “resurgence” of religion in international relations. Insofar as this literature typically focuses on particular religious...

This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to one of the most significant Arab thinkers of the late 20th century and the early 21st century: the Moroccan philosopher and social theorist Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. With his intellectual and political engagement...

This volume represents the first scholarly work in English devoted to the experience of Italian architects and builders in Turkey, as well as in many of the lands once belonging to the Ottoman Empire. Covering a complex cultural and political...

The following joint statement is issued by the Principals of the rotating IATF co-Chairs (UNAOC and UNOSAPG) and Executive Secretariat (UNFPA) on behalf of the members of the IATF and endorsed by the co-Chairs of the IATF Multi-Faith Advisory Council...

This toolkit has been developed following the implementation of a series of workshops that aimed to support the building of capacities for staff, volunteers and members of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Cyprus, under the coordination of the Cyprus Network...

This manual is intended for trainers and those who are interested in develop-ing intercultural competencies in others, particularly as part of intercultural dialogue, peace, and confl ict resolution work; international development; and intercultural training and teambuilding. Grounded in theory (see...

The oeuvre of Cypriot artist Christoforos Savva (1924–1968) is located within a transcultural-translocal, Mediterranean artistic discourse, which subverts normative narratives, especially classical modernism’s spatial and temporal foundations and avant-garde discourses. His alternative modernism and avant-gardism refuses hegemonic modernity’s binarisms of...

Palestinian Employability Future between Preventive and Corrective Challenges. Supporting university graduates to transition to the world of work by strengthening their human capital through the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies, in order to generate competent professionals able to face...