by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 28, 2018 | News
If religion is part of the problem, it is part of the solution. This is the one-liner the Minster of Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini believes in and repeats. He said it in his speech at the Alliance of Virtue conference in Washington DC, he wrote it in his...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 15, 2018 | News
An important step towards preventing incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes was taken on 13-15 February, when more than one hundred and fifty religious leaders and actors from around the world, Member States and United Nations officials gathered in...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 30, 2018 | News
The theological training was also attended by the Moroccan Ambassador to Central African Republic (CAR) and CAR’s National Reconciliation Cabinet Director from the Ministery for Social Affairs. Both expressed their strong commitment to peacebuilding and...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 18, 2018 | News
“Representation does not translate to influence,” Fadumo Dayib begins. The former presidential candidate knows what she is talking about. Quotas and talk of women’s participation is not the same as power and influence. “Women have always had a very informal part in...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 12, 2018 | News
At the beginning of the millennium, Abdirashid Ibrahim Mohamed worked at the Secretary of the National Security Committee of Somalia. At the same time, the civil war that had led to the collapse of the Somali state in the 1990s entered a new phase. In 2006 a new war...
