__________________________________________________
Announcement Consortium for Comparative Studies of Public International Law, Siyar (International Islamic Law) and International Relations (CPILSIR) __________________________________________________ Human Rights Conflict Prevention Centre (HRCPC), Faculty of Law, University in Bihac, call for cooperation universities, international governmental organizations, NGO, institutions and individuals who are interested in creating global academic network with vigorous ability to provide scholarship and project funding and to derive academic benefit from academic-scientific cooperation and scholar partnership, creating new links between different cultures and civilizations. HRCPC, Faculty of Law, University in Bihac (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with Faculty of Law, University in Como (Italy), Faculty of Sharia & Law, International Islamic University (Pakistan) and Faculty of Law, University in Salzburg (Austria), has set up International University Consortium for Comparative Studies of Public International Law, International Islamic Law (Siyar) and International Relations (CPILSIR). CPILSIR recognizes that the lack of scholarsÂ’ collaboration between Western and Islamic academic communities in the field of Public International Law, Islamic International Law and International Relations, can create large academic disputes and political intolerance between Western and Islamic academic community, and raises the issue of academic reviewing of different legal doctrines and cultural traditions in line with the principles and aspirations of the new international legal and political order. CPILSIR is set up with the aim to establish partnerships between Universities from Western and Islamic countries, to conduct a joint research and teaching program, to provide exchange of literature, to encourage students, teachers, and researchers mobility, and to implement schemes for promoting higher comparative education in this field between Western and Islamic academic community. CPILSIR's research and teaching program is a new aspect of cultural cooperation and new global academic communication between Western and Islamic academic communities. This teaching and research program represents another element of global process: the need for a mutually better understanding of the legal, cultural and socio-political diversity of the humankind, and not only share own a religious and civilizations perspectives but to pay due awareness also to other cultures and religions, ultimately to whole humankind at large. Introducing comparative studies and creating excellent and challenging academic climate the main goals of CPILSIR should be focused on following: 1. Attracting the best and young scholars and researchers from Western and Islamic countries to teach and research together in the field of these legal comparative studies; 2. Constructing global space in higher comparative legal education and research program; 3.Fastening common space in comparative higher education in Public International Law, Siyar and International Relations, in order to increase scholar and student exchanges between Western and Islamic countries; 4.Stimulating and creating a new scholar approach to global legal and political order; 5. Promoting liberal academic debate between Western and Islamic scholars in the field of Public International Law, Siyar and International Relations; 6. Creating and maintaining a vast library resource available for scholars and students for both Western and Islamic academic community. CPILSIR is governed by a Scientific Council of leading scholars and research fellows who come from different universities and share a professional interest in comparative studies of Public International Law, Siyar and International relations. CPILSIR is financed by University members, by institutional foundations, private donations, student fees, and from the income of commissioned projects. CPILSIR would welcome scholarships, sponsors for research projects, conferences, publishing activities and purchasing research equipment. Contact: Prof. Dr. N. Basic Human Rights Conflict Prevention Centre Faculty of Law University in Bihac Kulina bana 2/II 77000 Bihac Bosnia and Herzegovina Fax: +387 37 222 022 Phone: +387 37 222 022 Email: [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
