THE sixth annual conference on social sciences and humanities kicked off in Doha yesterday with participation of nearly 60 researchers from various scientific and research institutions.
The three-day conference is organised by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.
This year’s edition will focus on two main themes: “Ethics in Arab-Islamic Civilization” and “Arab Youth: Migration and the Future”.
The first theme of 2017 meeting will be presented through a series of panels and take a broad approach to study a number of present-day societies which are rooted in Arab-Islamic civilization.
The second set of parallel sessions will explore how the fragility of Arab social protections, as well as the cost to both individual and collective psychological wellbeing due to internal turbulence in Arab countries and a lack of opportunities, have all incentivised outward migration for the Arab youth.
Papers in this second parallel theme examine the phenomenon of the migration of Arab youth as an ongoing crisis, taking in closely questions such as the brain drain, return migration, academic migration, the labor migration of women, and others.
