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General Meeting of our International Network

General Meeting of UNESCO / UNITWIN Chair Network for Inter-Religious Dialogue and Intercultural Understanding took place on June 10, 2025. The Network comprises at present 31 Chair from 27 countries and forms an important institution elaborating and coordinating UNESCO activities focused upon educational, scientific and cultural aspects of intercultural and interfaith communication and rapprochement. The Meeting was presided by Mr. F. Mansouri, who serves as the Convenor of our Network, and as professor at Deakin University, Australia. Our Chair was represented by D.Spivak. The meeting which took place online, was dedicated to both current problems and prospects of our Network, and to strategic issues in UNESCO policies, such as digitization, migration, intercultural dialogue, and social cohesion.

Photo by D.Spivak

The Northern Caucasus Affiliation

On March 25, 2015, the Northern Caucasus affiliation of our Chair was inaugurated in the city of Derbent, basing upon the premises of the State University of Daghestan, and the Naryn-Kala historical, architectural and artistic museum.

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UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)

  • College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center
  • Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA)
  • The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions (Jerusalem, Izrael)

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