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- 1955) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student Christian ... launched both the modern missions movement and the modern ecumenical movement ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 07:08, 3 August 2022
- he founded the Seychelles Democratic Party and was the first President of ... James Mancham was the eldest son of Richard and Evelyn (née Tirant ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- in Oslo, Norway on August 20, 1993, and subsequently officially signed ... The Oslo Accords were a culmination of a series of secret and public ...20 KB (2,928 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- The United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs ... non-self-governing territories under the Council but this was too radical ...21 KB (3,201 words) - 11:50, 3 May 2023
- – February 20, 1976) was a French jurist and judge. He received the Nobel ... in France on behalf of disabled war veterans and war orphans and promoted education ...11 KB (1,759 words) - 04:06, 8 December 2022
- Boutros-Ghali was a thoughtful and independent leader who was criticized ... in an Egyptian Jewish family in Alexandria and converted to Roman Catholicism ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 19:59, 20 November 2023
- Schuman was a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) and an independent political thinker ... Schumans's concept of supra-national democracy and his vision ...19 KB (2,911 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created ... The Foundation makes grants through its New York headquarters and ...17 KB (2,437 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- Nations. From its headquarters in Rome and more than 80 country offices ... In addition to emergency food aid, WFP focuses on relief and rehabilitation ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 00:02, 18 May 2023
- October 6, 1981. He is considered in Egypt and in the West to be one of the ... Sadat was a soldier who became a man of peace. Egypt and Israel had ...17 KB (2,556 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first ... For anyone to become head of their state is a significant achievement ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... The most famous bodies of the Council of Europe are the European Court ...42 KB (6,144 words) - 08:27, 10 January 2024
- Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999) - a development activist and social ... He also promoted rural development activities in Pakistan, Bangladesh ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 07:15, 16 June 2023
- of Chichester, member of House of Lords and a pioneer of the Ecumenical ... Bell attended Wells Theological College and was ordained as priest in ...18 KB (2,871 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- (b. June 29, 1945) was the fifth President (and fourth to hold the office ... she pursued a policy of economic liberation and emphasized the need for a ...18 KB (2,650 words) - 01:16, 4 December 2023
- a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the Hazel Professor of Public ... he left the Socialist Party in 1960, and described himself as a centrist ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral ... community. When he contemplated decisions and undertook action, he always ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 07:44, 12 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education [[Image:Tee-ball wity Peace Corps volunteer, Honduras.jpg|thumb|250 ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- August 19, 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered ... however but his desire to unite the victors and the vanquished of the war ...21 KB (3,168 words) - 23:30, 8 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... . Their traditional homeland is in and around Onondaga County, New ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 00:41, 18 November 2022
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ... The organization has 192 Member States and 6 Associate Members. Based ...15 KB (2,159 words) - 01:23, 3 May 2023
- Ismaili Muslims. He was one of the founders and the first president of the ... British India (now Pakistan), to Aga Khan II and his third wife, Nawab A'lia ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- the civil war spread to the Nuba mountains and Blue Nile. It lasted for 22 ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The Cold ... as established by the Constitution and, along with the State Council ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- Boris inherited a large territory that was home to both Bulgars and ... put down. He abdicated his reign in 889 and entered monastic life, but ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- The Belfast Agreement, alternatively and widely known as the Good ... with the Irish Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds and by helping to bring about ...31 KB (4,792 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Nyerere was the first African head of state to retire voluntarily. He ... For example, under Nyerere literacy and health care "surpassed ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 06:41, 28 February 2023
- . The Sultan is the senior Nigerian emir, and the recognized spiritual leader ... Saharan Africa prior to European conquest and colonization. Stretching from ...23 KB (3,525 words) - 07:17, 15 April 2024
- from May 1998 to June 2000, between Ethiopia and Eritrea, forming one of the ... countries, whose people needed education and development and health care ...22 KB (3,294 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- nor a for-profit enterprise, although it may and often does receive both government ... representing both the channeling of energies and passions into directly addressing ...22 KB (3,066 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- about one-quarter of the population) and correcting one of the world ... early times by Bushmen, Damara, Namaqua, and since about the fourteenth ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- New Zealand serving three terms between 1999 and 2008. She was New Zealand ... when she chaired the foreign affairs and defense select committee. ...30 KB (4,497 words) - 15:18, 25 January 2023
- issues—such as divorce, contraception and abortion—and attempts to ... He was a proponent of the United States of Europe and, having limited ...24 KB (3,434 words) - 16:28, 29 December 2020
- Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician. Aung San entered ... leading architect of Burmese independence, and the founder of Union of Burma ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced its predecessor ... it has struggled to address issues of civil and ethnic strife within countries ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- the head of a monastery in both Christianity and Buddhism. Saint Pachomius ... ; German Abt; French abbé) is the head and chief governor of a community ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 04:42, 14 June 2023
- 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat, and politician, who, in 1957, ... care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan and Canada's flag. He improved ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- Austria), was an Austrian novelist, pacifist and the first woman to win the ... At the London Peace Congress of 1907 she spoke about how European ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology ... of tribes of the Iroquois Nation (also and more properly called Haudenosaunee ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:34, 3 December 2023
- Kyi is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League ... (Renamed in 1997 as the State Peace and Development Council, or SPDC.) ...32 KB (4,792 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law in London as drawn by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin for Ackermann ...21 KB (3,221 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. Africa's ... wars, the Liberian Civil War (1989-96), and the Second Liberian Civil ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- , Prime Minister of Uganda from 1962 to 1966 and President from 1966 to 1971 ... fall, he again stood for the Presidency and won. The fact that Nyerere ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- against the Logos theology of Justin Martyr and the apologists, who had spoken ... Many theological explanations of the relationship between the Father ...19 KB (2,965 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- was an American birth control activist, and the founder of the American ... Sanger believed that uncontrolled fertility and poverty were inexorably ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- on Edward's profligate spending and imposition of a supervisory ... The rule of law applied equally to low and high alike. A king who failed ...17 KB (2,615 words) - 20:54, 31 October 2022
- , roughly meh’-joo-gor-yeh) is a town located in Bosnia and Herzegovina ... millions flocked to the town for healing and absolution. The site of the ...28 KB (4,419 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... a high degree of individual protection. State parties can also take cases ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- community responded, sending aid and a UN peace-keeping mission ... to intervene in the Rwandan Genocide and in other subsequent conflicts ...29 KB (4,403 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- By 1964, he was Minister for Home Affairs and by 1967, Vice-President of ... " which means following the leader and is, he claimed, a distinctive ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law German]], Hungarian, Bulgarian, Ottoman Turkish and Russian]] ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- City, UNICEF provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to ... level services to promote the health and well being of children. UNICEF ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 11:42, 3 May 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- which contains many disparate groups and individuals, certain common ... opportunity for religious communities and individuals to interact with ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- | order2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People ... named János Kressinger, denied paternity and refused to support his mother ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 22:47, 18 October 2021
- the church places special focus on peace and Christian evangelism ... his son had not yet turned 12 years old, and no one else had been chosen ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- the first communist party in history. Lenin and his Bolshevik Party took full ... During World War I, Tsarist Russia experienced famine and economic ...24 KB (3,571 words) - 22:55, 5 April 2021
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World ... The Security Council requires all five permanent members to agree ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- ; Tamil: கொழும்பு) is the largest city and commercial ... Due to its large harbor and its strategic position, Colombo has been ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- speaking) country in both total area and population (behind Brazil ... Angola has vast mineral and petroleum reserves. Angolan culture reflects ...17 KB (2,316 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also ... "God's gift," or “City of Peace,” Baghdad was a hub of ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- - December 13, 1924) was an American labor and political leader. He was born ... A hero to some and a villain to others, Gompers founded the American ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- of the population of modern day Nigeria, and they are commonly the majority ... Africa, even reaching into Benin, Ghana, and Togo, the greatest concentration ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... its native peoples, East Indians, Africans, and the British who settled the ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor and chief justiciar of England ... for the modern "Justice of the Peace," based on selecting ...34 KB (5,307 words) - 23:24, 17 January 2024
- a government intent on remaining in power, and rebellions on several fronts. in 1960, Chad has suffered instability and violence, stemming mostly ...18 KB (2,606 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- serving as the executive (administrative) and de facto national capital ... Since that time, many more well-educated and well-paid blacks work in the ...25 KB (3,503 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her allies (the Knights of ... Four and a half centuries of Venetian rule in Crete thus came to an ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- - May 9, 1987) was a Nigerian politician and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and ... of holding Nigeria's competing regions and tribes together within a federal ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:13, 11 March 2023
- for more than a thousand years, the Somali and Afar tribes in this region ... lanes, controlling access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean with proximity ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- the result of the efforts of countless women and men to ensure that discrimination ... female franchise in the nineteenth century, and those who have struggled since ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- is officially conducted by the President and the Secretary of State. Less ... of the United States repeatedly mentioned and emphasized by government officials ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He ... On January 1, 2007, he succeeded Kofi Annan, and passed several major reforms ...31 KB (4,626 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- in the Republic of Korea's history and particularly in the development ... An austere and frugal man, Park was president from 1961 to 1979. He ...19 KB (2,859 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- , he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming ... In this perspective, as the world community matures, diplomacy and ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 07:10, 14 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education Category:Universities and Colleges {{Infobox University-Jen ...28 KB (3,869 words) - 19:30, 7 February 2024
- Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the ... city was named. The city is the financial and administrative capital of ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus (Turkish: Operation Peace), launched ... the island between a Turkish Cypriot north and Greek Cypriot south. In the ...55 KB (8,362 words) - 00:23, 3 May 2023
- rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., and a noted community leader in ... During the Civil Rights era of the late 1950s and 1960s she worked ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- one of the world's foremost economies and vibrant democracies. That ... of the Soviet Union in the north and the United States in the south ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- attacked the left by expelling Leon Trotsky and his supporters from the party ... #039;s direction, established Gosplan (the State General Planning Commission ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- She is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard ... women. The Netherlands had female heads of state or an acting head of state ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University ... Shils believed in liberty and reason, sustained by an organic, coherent ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, is the capital ... that included the Kushite, Meroitic, Alodic, and Sennar Kingdoms, as well as ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi-Ambeno, ... live below the poverty line. Between 1999 and 2002, East Timor received ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Education in school through two different languages and the practice of teaching children ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental ... to its citizens and the duties of the citizens to the State. Those ...44 KB (6,390 words) - 07:20, 15 April 2024
- Oslo is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality ... times by fire, King Christian IV of Denmark (and Norway) in 1624, ordered Oslo ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- (although this was not confirmed until 1239) and by renouncing his claims to ... Sicily. As discontent with Henry's wars and demands for subsidies grew ...26 KB (4,217 words) - 22:11, 29 January 2023
- – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American ... dominated the Court for over three decades and played a significant role ...23 KB (3,437 words) - 06:32, 3 August 2022
- to administer the north of the 38th parallel and the United States to the south ... The split of Korea into north and south has precedent in Korean history ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure ... the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Comoros lie ... under socialism, agriculture withered, and education suffered. These ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920 ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- 1822 – April 15, 1888) was an English poet and critic of the Victorian age ... Arnold was also a major cultural critic, and his views on the moral ...12 KB (1,996 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology ... While the distinction between a "civil war" and a "revolution ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... from its strategic location between China and the trading networks of Southeast ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- university housing system in the U.S. and the largest among private schools. social sciences, philosophy, business, law, and the performing arts. NYU counts ...33 KB (4,775 words) - 09:32, 11 March 2023
- that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation ... theology (theology of people) in Korea and Dalit theology (theology of ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
