Baku International Humanitarian Forum 2012

Baky International Humanitarian Forum is an annual event of famous representatives of political scientific and cultural elite of world community including famous statesmen, Nobel Prize’s winners in the various fields of science and leaders of influential international organizations whose aim is holding dialogues, exchange of views and discussions on wide range of global issues in the interest of all humanity.

The initiators of forum in 2010 were the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his colleague the President of Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev.

The organizers and participants of the forum are representatives of natural and social sciences, as well as cultural elite of the world who have ambitious task of forming of new humanitarian agenda with the aim of its further consideration in the world scale. “Great ones of the world” are also invited to take part in the forum. They are acting or former heads of states and founders of multinational corporations. Unification of the representatives of all spheres of human activity leads to the optimal solution of vital problems which disturb all humanity.

Position of the Forum, which is about humanitarian problems in the era of globalization and reflects voice of the heart of humanity, are highlighted in the Baky Declaration.

The goal of the Forum is to build a dialogue through round tables. Every single person can listen and can be heard in the arena for actual topics of concern.

The task of the forum is formation of ground for constructive debates and discussions, exchange of ideas, theoretical and practical knowledge.

Outcome of the Forum is embodied in recommendations and calls to international organizations, leaders of states, and every single individual.

Traditions of forum

• Forum is held once a year in the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baky city;
• All participants of the forum receive personal invitation;
• Working languages of the forum are: Azerbaijani, Russian and English;
• Forum is headlined in media.

Next forum is going to take place in 4-5 October, 2012.

Round tables

I. Humanitarian aspects of economic growth models

Workshops:

• Global aspects of the social focus of economic growth models – problems and solutions
• Humanitarian effects of economic growth models
• Economic development within the context of human values – look into the future

II. Converging technologies and outlines of future

Workshops:

• Technological challenges and the problems of transformation (risks and stability)
• Values and science (converging technologies)
• Outlines of future: convergence of sciences, management and advancement

III. Modern mass media and new challenges

Workshops:

• World politics and social networks in the age of globalization
• Humanitarian aspects of journalism in a new millennium
• Role of the modern mass media in the dialogue of civilizations

IV. Traditional system of values in a post-modernist culture

Workshops:

• Intermediality as a mechanism for intercultural diffusion
• Reinterpretation of a personality in the epoch of post-modernism
• Humanitarian and cultural transformations in the realities of the contemporary world

V. New methodological approaches to the processes of globalization in the XXI century

Workshops:

• Virtual reality and progress of a society
• Role of virtual universities in the formation of a new generation
• Problems and perspectives of interrelations of generations

VI. Technologies changing a view on modern medicine and molecular biology

Workshops:

• Medical and ethic aspects of transplantology
• Deontological problems of oncology
• Molecular biology: achievements and perspectives

VII. Multiculturalism and cultural self-consciousness

Workshops:

• Multiculturalism and dialogue of rationalities
• Multiculturalism and identity in the epoch of globalization
• Cultural self-consciousness and philosophical image of man

VII.I Multiculturalism in the life of a society

Workshops:

• Problems of interreligious dialogue, its values and bounds
• Methods of governing ethnic, social, religious discrepancies and their compatibility with the different identifications
• Analogies and differences of the process of multiculturalism and integration in the West and the East

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