This year we are expanding our provision to secondary school. With the 2019 Tolerance Day theme being focused on the lessons from history, we are working with partner the Cambridge Forum on Geopolitics (COGGS) to explore lessons from history about the role and importance of tolerance.
Human behaviour changes but not human nature. Isn’t History then arguably the most reliable path to understanding the present and anticipating the problems of the future? Human behaviour changes but not human nature. Isn’t History then arguably the most reliable path to understanding the present and anticipating the problems of the future?
A recent event at the House of Commons provided an inspiring example of History at its boldest. It was hosted by the Forum on Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge as part of their Westphalia for the Middle East project. It brought together the unlikely bedfellows of politicians and bureaucrats from the Middle East, Europe, and the US, and historians of early modern Europe. Their ambition, simply put, is to see how the framework used to achieve the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 can be applied to resolving the current conflicts of the Middle East.
Human behaviour changes but not human nature. Isn’t History then arguably the most reliable path to understanding the present and anticipating the problems of the future? Human behaviour changes but not human nature. Isn’t History then arguably the most reliable path to understanding the present and anticipating the problems of the future?
A recent event at the House of Commons provided an inspiring example of History at its boldest. It was hosted by the Forum on Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge as part of their Westphalia for the Middle East project. It brought together the unlikely bedfellows of politicians and bureaucrats from the Middle East, Europe, and the US, and historians of early modern Europe. Their ambition, simply put, is to see how the framework used to achieve the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 can be applied to resolving the current conflicts of the Middle East.