Robin Wilson was formerly lead editor of the openSecurity section of openDemocracy. He advises the Council of Europe on the intercultural paradigm for the management of cultural diversity, on which it has been the global standard-setter in the last decade. He is heavily involved in debates across Europe on the future of progressive politics, including via the Good Society network convened by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. He is the author of Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Europe: Moving Beyond the Crisis (Edward Elgar) and The Northern Ireland Experience of Conflict and Agreement: A Model for Export? (Manchester University Press).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ulrich Beck - an appreciation
openSecurity editor Robin Wilson reflects on the work of German intellectual - and frequent openDemocracy...
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Published in: HomeBosnia: the “lost generation”
The international media can cast an unflinching spotlight on wars but when the war is over the spotlight is suddenly...
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Published in: openSecurityAdams: peacemaker or paramilitary?
The arrest of the decades-long leader of the 'republican movement' in Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams, has provoked...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka inquiry: a Tamil asylum-seeker speaks
As an international inquiry on the bloodshed in Sri Lanka in 2009 looms, one Tamil asylum-seeker explains why it...
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Published in: openSecurityMandela: explaining the magnetism
While the world stops for Nelson Mandela’s departure from it, his iconic status is unquestioned. Yet there is a more...