Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

I have started to work as a full Professor at Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) since 1984 and the department where I am associated is called Institut Armand-Frappier. There are 150 professors at INRS whereas 31 professors at the department:Institut Armand-Frappier. When I first joined the Institut Armand-Frappier (25 years ago) we were…

Conference: Strengthening Intercultural Competences to Prevent Racism and Xenophobia Lübeck, Holstein Gate © pixelquelle.de Start: 2007-3-14End: 2007-3-15 Location: Lübeck Between 2002 and 2007, the federal programme “XENOS – Living and Working in Diversity” is funding around 250 projects that are geared towards permanently reducing xenophobia and discrimination in society. XENOS projects are positioned at the…

SPME Faculty Forum Editor’s Note: This piece is in response to the article by Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren, previously published at https://spme.org/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=1742 The authors conveniently forgot to mention a third way to mitigate the consequences of a nuclear strike upon Israel. Dispersal of the population. Since it is clear that Israel is…

Presented by Edy Kaufman former Executive Director of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University current Co-Director of the Partners in Conflict and Partners in Peacebuilding Projects at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland former Chair of the Award winning…