International Conference on Religion and Politics: Interconfessional Communications and Political Technologies in the Age of Post-communism

September, 28 - October, 4, 1998
Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine

The conference is supposed to generalize the experience in the quest of religious orientation of the modern political activities with regard to the ethnic and confessional diversity of the society.

The practical task of the conference is connected with the aspiration to unite specialists of various spheres, auctioneers of politics and culture and representatives of different confessions. The joint effort of the participants should help to work out a plan of interdisciplinary research in the field named above, to improve the level of teaching of humanities, as well as to account for the quest of the ways of reaching social stability.

This conference is planned to become the first step in the series of international conferences with the same title "Power. Politics. Religion." , which should result in the conceptions of the development of the main fields in foreign and home politics in the sphere of interconfessional cooperation.

The main scientific issues of the conference:

• interconfessional cooperation and its role in strengthening the mutual trust between nations;
• ethnoconfessional conflicts: reasons, genesis and mechanisms of regulation;
• foreign politics strategy: religious orientation and geopolitical reality;
• philosophic and political aspects of the interconfessional cooperation;
• perspectives of law-creation and conception of spiritual citizenship;
• mass media and religious life: social responsibility, real possibilities and perspectives of the interconfessional cooperation;
• international environmental cooperation: the moral orientation of the coming millennium;
• religion and social policy in the tasks of the social service.

The participants will be offered excursions to the most famous historical places of Crimea: Sevastopol, the city where the main base of the Black Sea Fleet is located, Livadia Palace ( where Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met in 1945), Vorontsov Palace in Alupka, Alexander III Palace in Massandra.

Registration fee will make 150 USD, accomodation costs 40 - 100 USD (according to the class of a hotel). Registration fee must be paid upon arrival.

To participate in the conference you should send the filled registration form and a typed 1-page summary of your paper (2 copies) before May, 15, 1998 to the science chair of the seminar - Dr. Tatiana Senyushkina at the address above.

                          
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Of the participant of the International Conference

"Religion and Politics. Interconfessional 
Communications and Political Technologies in 
the Age of Post-communism"
September, 28 - October, 4, 1998
Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine

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Crimean Laboratory of Regional Researches
Crimean Branch of Ukrainian Society of Conflictologists

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