Third international scientific conference of the universities of Iran, and the Arab world

ISCA Participated in Scientific Research Cooperation Conference in Tunisian Manouba University

Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy (ISCA) participated in the third international scientific conference of the universities of Iran, and the Arab world, called by the University of Manouba in Tunisia and the Symposium of the Union of Tunisian University Presidents and the Iranian Secretariat for International Cultural Dialogue. With the participation of Arab universities from Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Syria and Iraq, the conference took place for two days from 11 to 12 November 2017 in Tunis and was hosted at the University of Manouba.

Besides Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy (ISCA), Chancellors and representatives of 11 Iranian universities namely, Tehran University, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Alzahra University, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Imam Sadiq University, University of Islamic Sects, Kashan University, Shahid Beheshti University together with Arab universities from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq attended the forum.

The importance of scientific cooperation between Iran and Arab World, opportunities and challenges facing scientific cooperation and the ways to encourage joint scientific production are among the most important topics to be discussed during the event.

The conference had three axes of discussions. These were “The importance scientific cooperation between Iran and the Arab world”, “The challenges and opportunities of cooperation between Iran and the Arab World”, and “Incentivizing Strategies of scientific production between Iran and the Arab world.”

The conference is established with the aim of facilitating the connections between Iranian and Arab cultural and academic scholars. The first and second rounds of the Forum were convened in 2015 and 2016.

The representative of Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy (ISCA), Dr Najaf Lakzaee, delivered a speech in which he called for the necessity of scientific and cultural cooperation of Iran and the Arab world for developing Islamic studies of security.

We all know that security is the basic necessity of all human beings and the first task of any government in relation to its citizens. Due to the occurrence of insecurity and widespread wars in the early twentieth century, from the middle of this century until now, the security studies always have been expanding all over the world
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whereas the field of security studies deals with the phenomenon of "security" as a normative matter, as well as the audience of the scientific-cultural dialogues of Iran and the Arab world are generally Muslim and subject to the religious rules of Islam, referring to the tradition of Security studies in Islamic sciences and also Security theorizing is necessary.

Today, we are faced with a lack of Islamic theory in the field of security issues. The current situation in the world, and in particular a significant part of the region in which Iran and the Arab world are located, is not safe in terms of security. In this critical situation, the scientific centers of Iran and the Arab world, as think tank, have a duty to provide comprehensive solutions based on Islamic resources and the sociological situation of Iran and the Arab world.

The full text of the Lakzaee's speech will be subsequently posted on the site

Source:WWW.ISCA.AC.IR