Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 136 Syngrou, Kallithea
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Charilaou Trikoupi & Lagoumitzi, Kallithea
17671 Athens
Greece
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Religion
- Research
The mission of the Centre aims to capture and analyse the region of East, the geography and geopolitics in reference to the main thematic categories such as politics, economy, religion, communication, culture. In relation to the research, educational and wider academic directions and orientations, the Near, Middle and Far East, Central Asia and Transcaucasia, and the Southeastern Mediterranean consist geographical areas of direct scientific interest of the Centre.
The Center aims to deal with critical, but also extremely important contemporary issues of humanity, such as Islam and Terrorism in the Arab world, Persia as an independent special international problem, the Kurdish issue, conflicts Transcaucasia (Armenia versus Azerbaijan), ethnic and minority problems, India - Pakistan's controversy over Kashmir, the phenomenon of underdevelopment and environmental destruction, poverty and impoverishment of large sections of the population and issues associated with peace and stability, human rights, freedoms and democracy.
The Centre invites as speakers political personalities from the academia, diplomacy field and culture in seminars, conferences and workshops. The Centre's publications include the inaugural edition of the international journal "Eurodialogue, Journal of International Relations, European, Economic and Social Studies" in collaboration with the European Parliament. It has developed a solid research and educational policy referred, both in organizing and conducting training sessions between students from national and foreign Universities, such as University of Bilgi and Galatasaray in Turkey, in a simulation approach for issues of democracy, human rights, Greek-Turkish relations and other international conflicts, issues of globalization and terrorism. The Centre organized in collaboration with the World Religions and Cultures Centre of Kykkos Monastery, two international conferences on the Meeting of Religions and Cultures in the counterpoint of Huntington's theory of conflict of civilizations.
The Centre will be an added value to the Network of Anna Lindt as it can function as a link between students, young researchers and the academia with institutions and organisations, both public and private, in the field of culture, communication, media and international relations.
As long as, the ALF Network comprises of a web of organisations and institutions, being a part of it our Centre will be able to promote its aims in a national and international level among universities and the students. Therefore, we will boost our cooperation with numerous institutions of diverse scientific fields.