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The term ‘citizenship’ is impossible to sum up in an easy sound bite. At least, one that sounds interesting…
It’s one of those things you can take for granted until you don’t have it – then it seems to be worth life and death: ask a refugee.
Citizenship is good news because it guarantees people their protection [...]

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Last weekend I was in Rome for three days attending a conference on democracy.
It was a high level event and three hours of it involved a discussion on civic engagement with about 20 others including the Education Secretary, Michael Gove and a few you others you’d recognise from TV.
Yesterday’s Evening Standard and the BBC have [...]

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There are many kinds of peace. There is a more passive definition: the absence of war or noise. Then there’s a proactive one, which involves bringing order by reining in all that is chaotic and destructive; and another proactive one is like the Hebrew ‘Shalom’, which means ‘the creation of harmony and [...]

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The last few days’ disturbances now feel like a car crash. Something started going wrong, then it skidded further, then bumped into something else and before we knew it people were dead and injured and onlookers are asking ‘what the hell happened there?’ It all happened so fast.
Politicians are reading their agendas into the analysis [...]

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The Citizenship Foundation has produced a report for CfBT which was released today.
This has been reported with a healthy prelude on the Guardian web site here:
although it doesn’t acknoweldge our authorship… so of course I would like to…
We have produced two reports - one that is comes in their ‘perspectives’ series: “School Leaders, Community Cohesion [...]

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