Volume 3 Issue No.

October-December 2012

21ST IFSSO General Conference Moved to April 2013, 30 Papers to be Presented

The schedule of the 21st IFSSO General Conference, with the theme The Ways and Means of Living in Peace and Harmony in a Multicultural World, has been moved to 910 April 2013 from its original March 2013 schedule. The change in schedule was made upon the request of the host organizations in Turkey the Yildiz Technical University and the Istanbul Foundation for Science and Culture. The Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey remains as the venue of the conference. 30 papers were selected for presentation in the Conference from among the 109 submissions coming from 30 different countries. The screening of papers was made by a Scientific Committee composed of three Main Building of the Yildiz Technical University - the venue of the IFSSO representatives from the IFSSO Executive General Conference (Photo credit: Nestor Castro) Board and three representatives from the host organizations in Turkey. The selected papers and their authors are the following: Are there Reasonable Alternatives to the Current Mode of Capitalism? by Jiri Melich (KIMEP University Kazakhstan); Conflicting Multicultural World and Gandhis Message of Peace and Harmony by Upasana Pandey (Banaras Hindu University, India); Consensus Social Movements and their Significance in a Globalizing World: The Example of the Focolare Movement by Natalia Wielecka (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland); Consumerism, Human Happiness, Lifestyle, Prosperity, Obesity and Wellbeing by Adriana Ortega (Universiti Putra Malaysia); Dialogue between Islam and the West by Mahmoud Dhaouadi (University of Tunis, Tunisia); see back page... FEATURE
IFSSO General Assembly Scheduled for 10 April 2013

The General Assembly of the International Federation of Social Science Organizations (IFSSO) will be held on 10 April 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. This is a day after the closing of the 21st IFSSO General Assembly. The General Assembly is the highest policy-making body of IFSSO and is convened once every two years. Full Member Organizations, Associate Member Organizations and Individual Members of IFSSO are entitled to attend and participate in the General Assembly. Among the items in the Agenda of the 2013 General Assembly are: 1) Report of the IFSSO President on the status of the Federation; 2) Formal acceptance of new member organizations and individuals; 3) Proposed amendments to IFSSOs By-laws; 4) Plans for 2013-15, including the 22nd General Conference; and 5) Election of the new Executive Board. Among the organizations expected to send delegations to the IFSSO General Assembly are the following: Anthropological Studies, Inc. (Anthropos); Association of Social Science Educators, Researchers, and Trainers, Inc. (ASSERT); Bangladesh Social Science Research Council (BSSRC); see back page...

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cont... Embedded Social Scientists: Warriors for Peace? by Nestor Castro (University of the Philippines); Endangering the Female Body and the Crisis of Modernity: A Study on Some Selected Issues of Indian Beauty Industry by Koushiki Das Gupta (University of Gour Banga, India); Ethnic Territorial Autonomy: An Effective Instrument of Conflict Resolution or An Additional Source of Separatism by Petr Panov and Irina Azanova (Perm University, Russia); Factors Nurturing a Culture of Violence and their Solutions by Zenaida Lucas (Pasig Catholic College, Philippines); In Search of Professional Identities in the Context of Multicultural Societies by Hidasi Judit (Budapest Business School, Hungary); India-Pakistan Relations and Peace and Harmony in South Asia by Sudhir Kumar Singh (University of Delhi, India); Interregionalism in Contemporary Politics by Olga Gubova (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic); Korean Wave as a Hybridization of Culture by Ik Ki Kim (Dongguk University, South Korea); Nation-State Building Processes in a Multicultural Indonesia: Searching for Harmony by Yekti Maunati (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) and I Ketut Ardhana (Udayana University, Indonesia); Palestinians in Israeli Human Rights Organizations by Irit Ballas (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); Reclaiming Community Rights to Livelihoods by Keokam Kraisarophong (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand); Rethinking Socialization of Young People: Towards a Better Life and a Peaceful World by Mourad Moulai Hadj (University of Oran, Algeria); Sociocultural Security and Tolerance in the Context of International Migration: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Two Perspectives on the Same
IFSSO General Assembly Scheduled for 10 April 2013

Problem by Iryna Kosulya (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine); The Effect of Cognitive and Ethical Factors on the Sectarian Violence in Egypt: A Socio-Cultural Study of the Causes of Violence and How to Avoid It by Ahmed Mousa Abdulhamied Badawi (Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Energy); The Inveterate Failures of the International Community on Somali Impasse by Abdi O. Shuriye (International Islamic University, Malaysia); The Malaise of EU Citizens: Towards a Multidimensional Measurement by Wolfgang Aschauer (University of Salzburg, Austria); The Religious Tolerance in Albania in Times of Modernity and Change by Miranda Rira (University of Elbasan, Albania); The Transformation of Japans Migration Policy Toward Multicultural Society: Response to its Vulnerability in Social Crisis and Disasters by Kazuhisa Nishihara (Seijo University, Japan) and Mari Shiba (Nagoya University, Japan); The Views of Turkish Immigrants on Multiculturalist Policies Applied in Australia by Ayse Mahinur Inan (Istanbul University, Turkey); Thinking of Peace, Democracy and Politics of Insults in Ghana: The Paradox of Freedom and Culture of Violence by Samuel Marfo (University for Development Studies, Ghana); Winning the Peace: Holistic Approaches of Peace Process in Southern Philippines by Chester Cabalza (National Defense College of the Philippines); Aside from the aforementioned papers, four papers were also selected to form a panel discussion on the teachings on peace and harmony by the Turkish philosopher Said Nursi. The members of the panel are Farid Alatas (National University of Singapore), Colin Turner (Durham University, United Kingdom), Thomas Michel (Georgetown University, United States), and Arif Mohammed Khan (India).

cont... Budapest Business School (BBS); Centre for Intercultural Studies and Multicultural Education (CISME); Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR); Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI); Institut des Sciences des Societes (INSS-CNRST); Institute of State and Law; Korean Social Science Research Council (KOSSREC);

Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU); Mindanao State University Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT); National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT); National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP); Research and Development Center for Social, Economic and Environment (RDCSEE); Risale-i Nur Institute; Science Council of Japan (SCJ); and

University of the Philippines College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP-UP).

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