President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
"Today multiculturalism is a state policy as well as lifestyle in Azerbaijan."
I have just returned from a visit to Azerbaijan where I attended the 5th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue, a two-day international gathering to build a dialogue into action against discrimination, inequality, and violent conflict.
Baku International Centre of Multiculturalism launches the next International Multiculturalism Summer School 2019 “Baku Intercultural Youth Forum 2019: Putting Interfaith Dialogue into Action” in partnership with ACWAY and Young friends of Azerbaijan.
The Baku International Multiculturalism Centre successfully continues the project of teaching the Azerbaijani Multiculturalism in local and foreign universities.
Videomaterial showing the 5-year activity of the Baku International Multiculturalism Centre.
Video material reflecting 5-year activity of Baku International Multiculturalism Center
The influential Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom has published an article entitled "Azerbaijan – the Holy Land of Fire".
Religion is a social phenomenon which has emerged both as the system of beliefs and the form of management of society for many centuries.
In March 2019, the Acting Executive Director of Baku International Centre of Multiculturalism Dr. Ravan Hasanov published a paper on the Role of Policy of Multiculturalism in the ‘Struggle Against Religious Extremism: the Example of Azerbaijani Experience.’
The concert was held with the support of Baku International Multiculturalism Centre, Baku Religious Community of European Jews and Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theatre named after Samad Vurgun.
Multiculturalism is part of our policy. Today Azerbaijan is considered one of the centres of multiculturalism in the world. It has its own history too.
The Shi'ite Muslim majority country of Azerbaijan recently invited more than a dozen evangelical pastors on an official visit to the nation. But why would the president of that country be interested in evangelical Christians?
IT’s my second visit to Azerbaijan.
On 16 February the participants of the VIII International Winter School of Multiculturalism “The Literary-artistic Sources of Azerbaijani Multiculturalism” organized by Baku International Centre of Multiculturalism commemorated the architect and builder of the Azerbaijani state, the national leader Heydar Aliyev, and laid bouquets of flowers on his tomb.
The Executive Director of Baku International Centre of Multiculturalism Ravan Hasanov visited the Azerbaijani Radio.
That night the Armenians, who consider the Azerbaijanis their eternal enemy, shed the Azerbaijani blood on the Azerbaijani land, where they had settled.
In view of Ravan Hasanov’s appointment as Executive Director of Baku International Centre of Multiculturalism by President Ilham Aliyev’s Instruction of 12 February 2019, a meeting has been held with the participation of the Head of the Department of Interethnic Relations, Multiculturalism and Religious Issues of the Presidential Administration Etibar Najafov at the meeting hall of BICM today.
Am 19. November 2018 fand im Berliner Hotel Adlon Kempinski die internationale Konferenz „Vom Dialog zur Zusammenarbeit zwischen Religionen und Zivilisationen“ statt. Diese wurde in Kooperation vom Internationalen Zentrum für interreligiöse und interkulturelle Zusammenarbeit in Baku, der Botschaft der Republik Aserbaidschan in Deutschland, dem Deutsch-Aserbaidschanischen Forum sowie der Akademie für Kulturdiplomatie organisiert.
Etibar Najafov: Multiculturalism is a state policy in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Institute of Theology Will Play a Great Part in the Improvement of Relations Between the State and Religion in Our Country as a Scientific Centre
The French Writer Gerard Cardon Visits the Centre of Multiculturalism