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Abstract [en]: On the Importance of Family in Civil Society All over the world, families continue to be driving forces for the development of each individual person. Families, however, cannot exist without a surrounding civil society which gains familiar influence by prohibiting familiar violence, by demanding school attendance and by offering nursing homes for elderly care. Such developments serve for the...
Abstract [en]: Since decades Colombia has been embroiled in a spiral of violence from leftist guerilla, righist paramilitary organizations and state security forces. The everday violence has been led in a dramatic fragile statehood. Drug trafficking, repressive measures against civil society, violence and insecurity, weaken political institutions and a high degree of corruption dominated for decades the public view to...
Abstract [en]: More than 70% of the Brazilian population lives in cities, the centres of Brazilian society. Cities are the reflection of society, of processes and structures of social circumstances. The socio-spatial separation is remarkable: On the one hand, there are the often discussed poor districts (‘favelas’), on the other hand, the gated communities of the rich. The difference between...
Abstract [de]: Religiöse Fragen haben in der öffentlichen Debatte in den letzten dreißig Jahren eine immer geringere Rolle gespielt. Noch unter Papst Johannes Paul II. war ein Papstbesuch im Ausland eine Schlagzeile auf dem Titelblatt der Zeitungen. Heute läuft selbst die Bischofssynode zu Fragen von Ehe und Familie eher unter „Vermischtes“. November 2015 Gutes Zusammenleben erfordert einen demokratiefähigen Islam Religiöse...
