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Politicians & Parliamentarians' Contributions to the Field of Cultural Diplomacy
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| This section provides the public with biographies of all MP's of European Union nations. The project aims to increase transparency and promote the practice of cultural diplomacy at the parliamentary level. Parliamentarians will have the opportunity to update any relevant information into their personal biography, therefore keeping the public up to date with the practices of their parliamentarians.
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Human Rights & Global Peace
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In August 1798, born from the tumult of the French Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen took the first step towards enshrining in law the concept that the individual and collective rights of man were universal and subject to protection. Although a product of the philosophical developments of the eighteenth-century enlightenment and limited in its scope to protecting the rights of male, French citizens, the Declaration can be considered the first attempt to politically redress the denial of man's natural freedoms. In the two centuries since the French Revolution, the attempt to expand the conception of human rights to encompass a universal standard and to protect those rights from abuse is ongoing. Internationally, we have witnessed moments of advance, but also of regression in the protection of personal freedoms and civil liberties throughout the world.
Spanning a century and the Atlantic Ocean, the fight to abolish slavery shaped the nineteenth-century. From 1815, when the Congress of Vienna condemned the international slave trade, to 1865, when the thirteenth amendment was finally passed into law in the United States of America, individuals and organisations sought to gain support for the abolition of an institution that denied the very humanity of those labelled 'slave'. In England, William Wilberforce worked tirelessly for the support of the British government in banning the slave trade in the British Empire, a motion approved by the British Parliament in 1807... More...
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| Examples of Inter-faith Dialogue Achievements
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In this section, readers can find a list of historical examples of Inter-Faith dialogue as Cultural Diplomacy practiced by different actors and groups. Using different aspects of interfaith and religious relations in order to promote acceptance of religion and tradition, these efforts have, throughout the years, served as a catalyst in developing cooperation and understanding. More...
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| The Cultural Diplomacy Dictionary
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“The Cultural Diplomacy Dictionary is aimed at introducing governmental & diplomatic officials, academics & scholars, young professionals & students, artists, civil society & private sector representatives, to contemporary and evolving concepts of cultural diplomacy.” The Cultural Diplomacy Dictionary items have been gathered from a diverse range of literature, including English, American, French, Spanish, Chinese and German. The essential idea was to compile a list of terms that do not already possess a precise definition, and describe them in a way that is more relevant to global politics today.
This Cultural Diplomacy Dictionary also contains references to influential people and organizations that have made significant contributions to cultural diplomacy and related fields, including Cultural Studies, International Relations, Sociology and Anthropology.More...
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