Editorial : the 10th anniversary of the Mediterranean journal of human rights

Abstract

Our journal has just started its tenth year of life. The initial idea that led to the creation of the Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, a journal that would deal exclusively with human rights, was that of enabling a dialogue among the cultures, religions, and the social and political models that characterize this area. The Mediterranean is a geographic area that is unlike any other for its great diversity and variety of distinctive features at all levels. Such differences date back to ancient times and have produced irresolvable antagonisms and even armed conflicts, but this has never been an obstacle to the movement of people across the northern and southern shores nor has it prevented the circulation of ideas and men at levels which have been unparalleled anywhere else on the planet. The reason for this is that the Mediterranean has a very specific geopolitical characteristic: it is a "liquid continent", a sea that is the meeting point of three continents. [excerpt]