Source: The Economist:
WHEN the United Nations was created after the second world war, it was “an era of secular international relations and few if any anticipated that religion would ever again be an important international actor.” However, as Professor Jeffrey Haynes of London Metropolitan University goes on to show in a recent paper, the end of the cold war ushered in some new planet-wide conversations about “values” and “behaviour” along with cultural and economic globalisation. And that created an opening for “faith-based organisations” of every kind, from religious charities and lobbies to churches to supra-national bodies like the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC).
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