22 May 2009
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22 May 2009Religion, Human Rights and Multicultural Jurisdictions How is a multicultural society supposed to satisfy everyone’s claim for cultural, ethnic and religious autonomy? An annual meeting to promote, develop and consolidate a network of cultural, intellectual and academic relationships.
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18 May 2009Resetdoc actively joined in the international debate about the Afghan “Family Law for Shiites”. On our website we published the appeal and on-line petition to the Afghan government made by Emma Bonino, and this initiative did not escape the attention of Giuliano Amato, who asked why do moderate Muslims such as Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and Tariq Ramadan remain silent. Abu Zayd has clarified his positions. Ramadan has not yet responded, but he will do it at the next Resetdoc Istanbul Seminars. -
25 March 2009About the Istanbul Seminars
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25 March 2009Purpose
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11 March 2009The democratic citizen, on whose vote the legitimacy of the entire political mechanism rests, is called upon to reason using his own brain (and to vote in solitude and as an individual), and associate with others to exchange information and opinions, to change his or her mind and then change it again, if necessary. Dissent is a constitutive virtue of democracy. Rather than corroding social ideals, as authoritarians and conservatives believe, it strengthens partiality and cooperation between citizens. Dissent reveals a fundamental loyalty to a country, a society or a community.
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Nadia Urbinati 16 October 2008Transnational migrations and global interdependence challenge the liberalism of western countries, which is becoming increasingly national and less universal. They are also challenging the sovereignty and the borders of states, patrolled not only with officers and laws, but also with xenophobic ideologies and racism. Europe’s new enemies, the only ones against whom Europe is inclined and ready to mobilise armies, are neither warmongering states nor expansionist empires. They are instead boat people, desperate people attempting to survive by fleeing hunger and abuse, although unfortunately no international laws and no convention provides them with the status of refugees, because poverty and economic destitution are not considered an abuse of fundamental human rights.
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9 October 2008
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6 October 2008
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16 January 2008The possibility of an effective process of assimilation of human rights in the Arab world is dependent on an inclusive dialogic process reflecting the pluralism of this context. Despite the common belief that Islamism is hostile to human rights, its rise has been accompanied by the development of a literature and a set of documents that embrace the language of human rights and project it onto the Islamist political ideal. In order to frame this issue in a more familiar way, we may consider Islamism as a kind of communitarianism that recognizes the legitimacy of social institutions (human rights included) conditionally to their foundation on the constitutive values of the community of membership. Islamism has had a relevant role in the affirmation of an Islamist way to human rights.
