Mission
The Chair serves as a medium-scale centre of conducting interdisciplinary advanced studies of fundamental dimensions of intercultural and interfaith dialogue, on both the national and the international planes, as well as a focal point for the implementation of cultural strategy of UNESCO, especially in the field of rapprochement of cultures, primarily in the Russian Federation and the neighboring countries. Its mission includes serving as a monitoring centre of problems and perspectives, good practices and novel tactics, elaborated in the realm of the contemporary intercivilizational, intercultural, and interfaith dialogue, as well a platform for discussion, consultation and teaching.
Main objectives of the Chair consist in elaboration, improvement and promotion of:
- strategies of intercultural dialogue and rapprochement, directed at promotion of human rights, preservation of cultural diversity, optimization of social coherence, attainment of UN Sustainable Development Goals;
- tactics of conducting interfaith dialogue, primarily between the adherents of traditional religions of the Russian Federation, directed at the attainment of optimal modes of interreligious coexistence and cooperation, application of rich potential of the religious traditions and subcultures, in order to raise resilience level in the context of global destabilization, and promotion of the traditional spiritual values in the framework of the ‘diversity of heritage”;
- new methods and forms in conducting structured dialogue and mutual enrichment of sciences comprised by the philosophical and social and humanitarian cycles, as well as humanities, theology, present-day cultural industries and digital technologies, as well as literature and arts, aiming at beneficial harmonization of social life and its general humanization, in line with UNESCO lofty ideals.
