{"id":3009,"date":"2022-03-04T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2022-04-16T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T09:37:00","slug":"ichs-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/en\/2022\/03\/04\/ichs-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"ICHS Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the world\u2019s largest organization of historians, the\u00a0Comit\u00e9\u00a0International\u00a0des Sciences\u00a0Historiques (CISH)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS)\u00a0includes national and topical history organizations from all continents and covering all time periods.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our purpose is to defend freedom of thought and expression in the field of historical research and teaching and oppose the misuse of history for whatever purpose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, we strongly condemn the abuse of history employed by President Putin in rationalizing Russia\u2019s aggression against Ukraine.&nbsp;History is not owned by states or rulers, and&nbsp;we deplore the use of history to foster enemy images and distorted myths.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Freedom of thought and expression requires dialogue and means that our identities and communities&nbsp;<a><\/a>are&nbsp;subject&nbsp;to revision and change. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We stand by our member organizations from&nbsp;the Russian&nbsp;Federation and Ukraine&nbsp;in support of open and free dissemination of historical sources and open and free discussions about interpretations and narratives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board of CISH-&nbsp;ICHS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world\u2019s largest organization of historians, the\u00a0Comit\u00e9\u00a0International\u00a0des Sciences\u00a0Historiques (CISH)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS)\u00a0includes national and topical history organizations from all continents and covering all time periods.\u00a0 Our purpose is to defend freedom of thought and expression in the field of historical research and teaching and oppose the misuse of history for whatever purpose.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","category-statement-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}