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Linked with Spasenija Moro – Croatia.

According to Marina Skrabalo, an Open Society Institute International Policy Fellow and External Evaluator: « For five years, the Center for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights in Osijek, Croatia, has worked effectively to support capacity development in eight communities in Eastern and Western Slavonia through a project called « Building a Democratic Society Based on the Culture of Nonviolence. » The project promotes partnerships among a wide array of local state and non-state actors, mobilizes local peace constituents, and integrates « participatory action research » into each stage of its work from needs assessment to evaluation. The project is unique in the post-Yugoslav context as one of the most ambitiously envisioned community-based peacebuilding endeavours, undertaken by an indigenous peace organization and enriched by international, national, and local partnerships.

« The Center for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights was conceived in 1991 in a basement during the shelling of Osijek when the people seeking shelter there began to discuss peacemaking civic action. The Center has grown into a network with more than 150 members, 30 full-time activists, a budget of more than $2 million, and three basic programs-education, human rights, and peacebuilding. In 1998, it partnered with the Life and Peace Institute from Sweden to obtain funds from the European Union and other private funders for the « Building a Democratic Society Based on the Culture of Nonviolence » project.

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Linked with Mina Ahadi – Iran.

Homepage: Those strongly in favour of faith schools often cite the rights of religious parents, as taxpayers, to ensure that their child has State schooling within a school that promotes their faith. However, in areas where faith schools are over-subscribed, there is a real risk that non-religious parents, who are also taxpayers, do not have the same rights of access. Also, should the number of faith schools substantially increase, many parents may lose the right to ensure that their child goes to a community, non-faith, school. Parental choice, although a mantra of the present government, is not without cost: one parent’s choice (and their ability to exercise it) has an impact on the choice of others. Ultimately, with regard to the most popular schools, choice is exercised far more by the schools than by the parents. (Position Statement on Faith Schools, Association of Teachers and Lecturers).

Welcome, excerpt: … The only way to prevent the kind of religious power-seeking that leads to conflict is to make both religious discrimination and religious privilege constitutionally impossible.

We need a secular constitution that will:

• End the privileged input of religious bodies to policy making and law-making;
• Keep all public services free from religious control so that that they remain equally available to all on the same terms;
• Abolish the established church and all its privileges (including 26 bishops in the House of Lords);
• Put an end to the divisiveness of publicly funded religious schools by making them open to all without discrimination on grounds of religion, or lack of it, and bringing them under local authority control;
• Abolish blasphemy and similar repressive laws, rather than extend them.

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Linked with Parshuram Rai – Nepal.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds … Mahatma Gandhi.

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About aims and objectives: Some of the important objectives of the Centre, as proposed in the Memorandum of Association, are:

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Linked with James Bovard – USA, with Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners? and with Breaking Down an Innocent Man.

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Linked with Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners? and with Breaking Down an Innocent Man.

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See two of the latest articles:

JAMMU & KASHMIR, Signals from ceasefire, published on FRONTLINE, by PRAVEEN SWAMI in Srinagar, Volume 24/Issue 21 – Oct. 20-Nov. 02, 2007: The United Jihad Council is desperate to join in the political dialogue on Jammu and Kashmir’s future, but it may be too late …

and: POLITICS, No-win situation, published on FRONTLINE, by VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN, Volume 24/Issue 21 – Oct. 20-Nov. 02, 2007: Electoral compulsions and the prospect of some NSG countries opposing the Indo-U.S. deal forced the government’s climbdown …