The American journal Religion & Education has published a special issue dedicated to the work of Robert Jackson. The articles are all written by former doctoral students of Professor Jackson. A much expanded version of the special issue will be published as Religion in Education: Innovation in International Research, edited by Joyce Miller, Kevin O’Grady and Ursula McKenna.

Education, culture of democracy and intercultural dialogue were the focus of the international conference, 'Competences for a Culture of Democracy and Intercultural Dialogue: A Political Challenge and Values' organised in the framework of the Andorran Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in Andorra la Vella, 7-8 February. EWC's Executive Director took part in the conference, and was the rapporteur for the session on 'Competences for a culture of democracy'.

Are you interested in expanding your knowledge about evaluation of education policies? Do you participate in the development of policies, programs or initiatives on education for democratic citizenship in which their monitoring and evaluation processes could be strengthened?

Citizenship education is fundamental to strengthen democracy in the Americas. Be part of this campaign by sharing experiences and ideas that promote values and practices of democracy. Let's invite more and more people to participate actively in building a democratic culture.

EWC's Head of Research presented a paper on 'Criticism of Israeli politics, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism - how to distinguish between them?' at a conference in Norway, February 5th. The paper concludes that the competence to distinguish legitimate criticism from anti-Semitism requires not only knowledge, but skills of critical thinking and a self-reflective attitude in order to escape mechanisms of prejudice and othering.