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The Interfaith Council For Social Cohesion In The Western Balkans, Ylli H. Doci
The Interfaith Council For Social Cohesion In The Western Balkans, Ylli H. Doci
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
With the demise of the communist governments in the Balkan region in the early 1990s, we have entered a phase in which serious religiously related issues challenging the social cohesion of our societies need serious analysis and action at different levels. Interfaith councils as a way of engaging the different religious communities in one society are not new and not the same. Nor are they unquestionably accepted or easily dismissed as ineffective in addressing challenges of peacebuilding and social cohesion in a religiously pluralistic society. There are political, cultural, ethnic and national considerations beside religious and educational ones which figure …