{"id":567,"date":"2021-02-22T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/?p=567"},"modified":"2021-02-22T20:42:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T01:42:59","slug":"a-year-after-the-cologne-attacks-how-small-community-initiatives-in-europe-are-countering-right-wing-populism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/a-year-after-the-cologne-attacks-how-small-community-initiatives-in-europe-are-countering-right-wing-populism\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year after \u201cThe Cologne Attacks\u201d: How Small Community Initiatives in Europe Are Countering Right-wing Populism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Feyzi Baban and Kim Rygiel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The question we need to ask is this: Why do some people and communities express discomfort and hostility towards others of different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds while others show openness and solidarity with newcomers such as refugees? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The one-year anniversary of the \u201cCologne attacks\u201d on some 1,200 women on New Year\u2019s Eve is a difficult one for many Germans. Prior to the attacks, since the summer of 2015, Germany demonstrated remarkable leadership \u2013 unlike many other European countries \u2013 by providing refuge to a million people fleeing war in places like Syria, where nearly half the population fled their homes. Last year\u2019s attacks, most of which took place in the Cologne train station and included sexual assault, rape and robbery, were a tipping and turning point for many Germans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/praxis\/countering-right-wing-populism\/#babanrygiel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Feyzi Baban and Kim Rygiel The question we need to ask is this: Why do some people and communities express discomfort and hostility towards others of different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds while others show openness and solidarity with newcomers such as refugees? The one-year anniversary of the \u201cCologne attacks\u201d on some 1,200 women &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/a-year-after-the-cologne-attacks-how-small-community-initiatives-in-europe-are-countering-right-wing-populism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Year after \u201cThe Cologne Attacks\u201d: How Small Community Initiatives in Europe Are Countering Right-wing Populism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,28,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-research-output","category-rygiel","category-baban","category-article"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialprojects.wlu.ca\/fosteringpluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}