Robin Harris, President of COK, was one of the four participants at a round table held in London on the Croatian Disappeared. Read the entire text, which discusses the role of the Western policy and the Programme of a Greater Serbia in the massacres that happened.
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The Feast of St Blaise in Croatia is primarily recognised as the feast-day of Dubrovnik’s patron saint. In 1945, it was seemingly allowed by the Communist Party, once the public events were out of the way, terror ensued.
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The Centre for the Renewal of Culture (COK) was founded in 2009. It is based in Zagreb, Croatia. As the name suggests, the assumption behind its activity is that it is a country’s culture, not just the parties and politicians who run public affairs, that ultimately matters. This culture needs […]
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The Croatian Centre for the Renewal of Culture (COK) wishes you a Happy and Blessed Christmas and a prosperous New Year in 2024! In memory of what was endured under Communist Yugoslavia, and acknowledgment of what is still experienced by Christians in many parts of the world, we include with […]
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by Robin Harris After years of noisy public pressure, the archives relating to the reign of Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) were officially opened to researchers in March 2020. Since then, remarkably little has been heard of them. This is not surprising, because documentation of the most controversial period – […]
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In the Center for the Renewal of Culture (COK) Robin Harris has delivered a recorded lecture in Croatian language on the commemoration day of the blessed Alojzije Stepinac who by general agreement among Croatian Catholics should get his well-deserved canonization. You can view the lecture here. This is mainly […]
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If the last two years have taught us anything, it is that many people are thirsting for new ideas to handle crises and emerge from gridlock. We are proud to say that the FMRS® was ahead of the game in making an almost seamless transition to online events, discussing innovative […]
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How does the world look – how much has changed and how much remains the same – in the wake of the apparently endless Covid crisis? Dr. Robin Harris, historian, commentator and former adviser to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, argues that we face more of the same – only […]
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Vice-President of COK and former advisor to the late Prime minister Margaret Thatcher has been asked by The Daily Telegraph (London) to write a commentary on the current Brexit negotiations and the potential deal. You can read his commentary below. Each day May stays in office heaps humiliation […]
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Most conferences serve, at best, as agreeable talking shops, where like-minded people listen to a serious of empty clichés, meet each other over dinner, and – occasionally – keep in touch afterwards to their mutual benefit. But some conferences, with the right participants, the right themes, and benefiting from […]
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