UNESCO CHAIR IN COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS, THEIR SPECIFIC CULTURES AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

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International Forum on Cultural Heritage and Interethnic Understanding

9th International Forum ‘Cultural Heritage of Northern Caucasus as Resource of Interethnic Understanding’ took place in Kabardinka, a resort town at the Black Sea, Russian Federation, from September 21 till 24, 2023. Scientific program of the Forum started with invited plenary report given by D.Spivak, entitled ‘Cultural Heritage and Interethnic Understanding in UNESCO New Strategy’. Having reviewed four Strategic Objectives of UNESCO for the present eight-year span, and having presented comments on such novel categories of the Strategy as ‘the diversity of heritage’, the speaker assessed the new Strategy as most constructive and timely.

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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