Officials at the inaugural session of The Sixth Annual Conference on Human and Social Science at Doha Institute yesterday. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula
The 6th Annual Conference on the Social Sciences and Humanities which opened yesterday at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies discusses two themes: “Ethics in Arab-Islamic Civilization” and “Arab Youth: Migration and the Future”.
The organising committee received 350 research proposals under the above themes of the conference and approved 150 proposal but finally received 100 research papers of which the committee selected 58 papers, said Mohammed Jaml Barout, Associate Researcher - Head of Research Department at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS ) in his opening speech.
The wide range of approaches to this broad theme, recognising the values and morals of previous eras have been shaken, and that their importance goes beyond academic interest to take in entire societies.
ACRPS is committed to textured researches on social sciences and humanitarian which is important for the renaissance of Arab people, Barout said adding at the end of the event winners will be honoured.
ACRPS is organising the annual conference since 2011 creating a platform for scholars to explore ethical questions encompassing this fifteen century-old civilization from broadest possible vantage point, taking in also interrelationship with Persian, Hellenic and Indian worlds and their own value systems.
Around 400 researchers have taken part in this annual event over the past years and including this conference said Barout.
There are 60 papers to be discussed over three days in ten parallel sessions each of which include several papers in addition to four lectures two of them have been presented in the opening session by Fahami Jada’an and George Zenati about ethics in Arab- Islamic civilisation and the remaining two lectures will focus on migration of Arab youth on the second day of the conference.
The first session was devoted to Islamic ethics and modernity questions exploring how the contemporary Western societies have impacted ethical values of Arab world, going beyond merely academic and technical.
The parallel session on migration and gender focused on Arab girls migration shedding lights on some countries like Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Iraq. Researchers highlighted how the fragility of Arab social protections, as well as cost to both individual and collective psychological wellbeing due to internal turbulence in Arab countries and a lack of opportunities, have all incentivized outward migration for the Arab youth.
Although migration poses risk to lives in perilous sea voyages, it has become a ready solution to life’s difficult problems for hundreds of thousands of young Arabs said some the papers presented in the session.
