FIFTH BALKAN COUNTRIES SEMINAR OF PHILOSOPHY & THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITIES IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
In this project, philosophers and scientists from Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania and Turkey aims at promoting reflection on the issue of identities from the perspective of human rights, in a region where the approach of people of different ethnic and religious identities to each other has often resulted in deadly confrontations and genocides.
The following papers were presented in this Seminar:
Inaugural Addresses
· Prof. Dr. İoanna Kuçuradi, Director of the Centre for Research and Application of Human Rights of Maltepe University, UNESCO Chair in Philosophy
and Human Rights, President of the Philosophical Society of Turkey
· Kemal Köymen, Rector of Maltepe University
· William L. McBride, President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies
· Zhelyu Zhelev, Former President of the Republic of Bulgaria
Papers
· Ivan Kaltchev, Religious Minorities – A Potential for Peace Religious Freedom in Bulgaria Today
· Stanislava Pircheva, Public Function and the Role of BNR in the Context of Human Rights and Identities
· Petru Bejan, About Hospitality and Tolerance in South-Eastern Europe
· Pavo Barišić, Globalization, Human Rights and Democracy
· Betül Çotuksöken, The Concept of Identity: An Anthropontological Approach
· Harun Tepe, Nationalism and Patriotism from the Perspective of Human Rights
· Ahmet Ulvi Türkbağ, The Theoretical and Social Conditions of Human Rights
· Zerrin G. Tandoğan, People in Motion: A Glimpse on Conceptual, Ethical and Educational Aspects of Cross-cultural Encounters
· Stelios Virvidakis, National Identities, Epistemic and Moral Norms and Historical Narratives
· Stavroula Tsinorema, The Universality of Human Rights in the Space of Cultural Pluralism
· Myrto Dragona-Monachou, Greekness, Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
· Bardhyl Çipi, Bioethical Aspects of Torture in Albania in the Human Rights Focus
· Mircea Dumitru, On Toleration, Charity and Epistemic Fallibilism
· H. Haluk Erdem ve Mustafa Günay, Globalisation, Multiculturalism and Human Rights
· Ali Taşkın, The Danger of Giving Priority to the Right to Ethnic/Cultural Identity over Individual Human Rights
· William L. McBride, Summary of the Seminar
T.C. Maltepe Üniversitesi, İnsan Hakları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi ve UNESCO Felsefe ve İnsan Hakları Kürsüsü Yayınları-5
Editor: İoanna Kuçuradi
Number of Pages : 192, Size: 14,5 cm x 21 cm, Print Place - Date: İstanbul - 2011, ISBN: 978-975-6760-57-4