The European financial and monetary crisis in 2008 thoroughly shook all faith in progress in the EU. For the first time, a country’s membership of the Eurozone was questioned and made the subject of public controversial debate. This book, which is the 20th edition of the Osnabrück Peace Forum Yearbook, focuses on Greece, the country at the centre of the crisis and to which four contributions are dedicated as the volume’s featured country. Other themes of the Peace Dialogues in 2012 include prospects for Korea, the persecution of religious minorities in various countries, the question of how war is perceived and dealt with for example in our theatres, and the issue of ageing societies – a growing problem not only for western industrial countries, but also for the economically weak countries and populations of the so-called Third World.weiterlesen