Christians in Syria: escape, decimation and fear of Assad’s return
It is March 7th 2013. In a few short months Father Paolo Dall’Oglio will be taken prisoner by ISIS in Raqqa, right at the beginning of his mission to save others who had been kidnapped in Syria since...
View ArticleNew Roads of Islamic Thought
From July 9th to July 11th, 2018, Casablanca, Morocco, hosted an important international conference on Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought. This is a topical subject, but above all one worthy of...
View ArticleExiting Violence: The Role of Religion(s)
Berkley Center, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and ResetDoc are pleased to invite you to the “Exiting Violence: The Role of Religion”conferences. October 11-12, 2018 Location: Berkley Center Third Floor...
View ArticleThe Fiascos of Political Islam
Why did political Islam fail? And why did political Islam in Turkey, which started as a rising star turn into a political monster? Why did the Arab, Muslim awakening with its good intentions end in a...
View ArticleThe Principles of Religious Pluralism
Recognition of our religious diversity and plurality should be the fundamental task of toleration, says Josè Casanova from Georgetown University lines up the three principles: 1. Each person has the...
View ArticleHow to Conquer Public Space in Morocco through a Feminist March. An Interview...
Moroccan, Maghrabi, Mediterranean, African—and then, also, Arab–Muslim. This is how Loubna Bensalah — activist and lecturer in communication at the Mohammed V University in Rabat — defines her...
View ArticleConfucius’s Virtues of Zhong and Shu: Concepts for Toleration and Tolerance
ZHONG defines tolerance doing one’s utmost and putting oneself in the other’s place, which is similar but different from tolerance in Western tradition and SHU means acting according to your heart....
View ArticleIslamic Pluralist Theology and other Religions
The Qur’an offers pluralism for other religions, as in verse 5 – The Al-Ma’idah: “God created diversity, wanted us to create diversity and is asking us to do good deeds together, eat together and have...
View ArticleSpeakers Casablanca
Casablanca School and Seminar Speakers: Coming Soon L'articolo Speakers Casablanca proviene da Reset Dialogues on Civilizations | a venue for all tribes.
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Casablanca Seminars Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions International Conference 10-20 July, 2019 Reset Dialogues On Civilizations in partnership with the King...
View ArticleComparative Secularism – Towards an Intercultural Lexicon
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View ArticleWhat the “Migrantenpartijen” Want in Amsterdam
A month before the European elections, the international political debate has shifted to the Netherlands. There, the far-right rising star Thierry Baudet has declared his aspiration to lead the Dutch...
View ArticleTolerance in Mediterranean Societies – Casablanca Seminars 2019
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View ArticleA Multiple Belonging: Recovering Gandhi’s Religious Vision
Gandhi was suspicious of many things modern, including modern Hinduism: a new, 19th century religion, sharply demarcated from others, and a fitting rival of Islam and Christianity. Why? Because he...
View ArticleKarol Wojtyla, the Pope Who Spoke Truth to Poland
On August 13th 1961 Berlin discovered the existence of the Wall. That day all connections between the two sectors of Berlin, East and West, were stopped, in compliance with decisions made by the...
View ArticleTurkey’s Nationalist Drift, in the words of Hannah Arendt
Cengiz Aktar – Photo: Internazionale/Flickr A renowned professor of international relations, Cengiz Aktar has worked for both the UN and the EU. Most importantly, he’s been one of the closest Turkish...
View ArticleStronger than Politics: The Resilience of Orthodoxy in Greece
On Egnatia, a congested street that cuts the center of Thessaloniki horizontally, Greece’s second-largest city, packed buses are the norm at any time of the day. Between the Arch of Galerius and the...
View ArticleMuslim Reformism – A Critical History: Is Islamic Religious Reform Possible?
The renowned Tunisian scholar Mohamed Haddad traces the history of the reformist movement and explains recent events related to the Islamic religion in Muslim countries and among Muslim minorities...
View ArticleState Plotting, Islamist Nihilism. The Real Story Behind the Tibhirine Massacre
May 21st is the date on which we remember the 1996 massacre of the monks of Tibhirine, in Algeria. In remembering Tibhirine on this occasion, I intend to connect that massacre to the kidnapping of...
View ArticleGlobal Religious and Secular Dynamics: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
Thursday, June 11, 2020 | 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. EDT Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Reset Dialogues on Civilizations. Registration open by 10:00 a.m....
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