State, Religious Faith and Security Issues

ISBN-13: 9783659856341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 148 str.

Xhavit Shala

Opis

Religious issues are connected with the security of a country,region and beyond. If they are not managed carefully,there exist the possibility of their conversion into a risk and threat for security. This is the case,because radicalization of religious faiths has often led to inter-religious and inter-ethnic hatred, crimes against human kind,genocide or terrorist acts,becoming therefore a serious threat even for the regional and global security.Srebrenica assacres,previous Afghanistan under the Taliban regime,today's ISIS,as well as the tendency toward the radicalization of the Balkan Islam,are very valid proofs of this. That is the reason why religious issues must not be left out of the society's attention.The regulation body of all of these problems must be the state.It must not simply serve as a neutral guarantor for the freedom of religious faiths as it has already happened up to now in many democratic countries,but rather act as a promoter of these freedoms. The state,respecting the Universal Declaration and European Convention for Human Rights and valuing the importance of such problems for the national security, must pass from "passive neutrality" toward "active secularism".

O autorze

Mr.Xhavit Shala was born in August 1961 in Albania. He holds "Phd" in the field of Security and Defense. He started his professional career in 1984, including among others the position of General Director of the Criminal Police in Albanian State Police. Presently, he holds the position of Director of the Scientific Research at the Security Academy.