In his principal address, Professor Devetak said that problems of co-operation and development in the Mediterranean are intermingled with religious fundamentalism and cultural misperceptions: "ethnic or religious connotation is given to problems that have nothing to do with ethnicity or religion".

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And while a person's religion is clearly a cultural attribute, there is a strong genetic component to religious fundamentalism.

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