The main objectives are to explore how universities could benefit from incorporating conflict transformation and intercultural dialogue studies and skills into their academic curriculum, and to raise awareness of the importance of practical peace building skills in education.

UNESCO: Culture of Dialogue in the Arab States to be included in higher education curricula | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Some of the topics discussed in the meeting were conflict transformation and intercultural dialogue studies in the Arab region, in what way is education a major tool for peace building and the international perspective on the integration of conflict transformation into the academic curriculum.

UNESCO: Culture of Dialogue in the Arab States to be included in higher education curricula | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Among his major publications are studies on education planning, international and comparative education, intercultural and international dimensions of education, internationalization of educational policies.

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The organizers are: The Russian Academy for Public Administration, under the President of the Russian Federation, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, the UNESCO Network of Chairs on Intercultural and Inter-religious Dialogue and the UNESCO Moscow Office.

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