Salaam Global Foundation and Center for Graduate International Studies of University of Tehran will hold a roundtable for commemorating International Day of Living Together in Peace with presence of scholars, students and professors to review different aspects of living together in peace and raising awareness about them.

Manouchehr Sadooghi Soha, Faculty Member of World Religions Research Center; Mohammad Jafar Javadi Arjmand, Faculty Member of University of Tehran and Yalda Khosravi, Head of Peace Studies Group in Tehran Peace Museum will give lecture in this event and review living in peace together with different approaches.

The meeting will be held on 14 May 2018 from 14 to 15:30 in Center for Graduate International Studies of University of Tehran hall.

Meeting for discussion about Book on “Friendship as a Worldview” was held on 22 January 2018 in University of Tehran Faculty of Law and Political Science hall with presence of students and scholars of international relations. The meeting we held jointly by Center for Graduate International Studies of University of Tehran and Salaam Global Foundation on Salaam and peace and friendship.

Speakers were Dr. Jafar Mahallati, Presidential Scholar in Islamic Studies at the Religion Department of Oberlin College (Writer of Book); Dr. Nasser Hadian, Professor of International Relations at University of Tehran; Dr. Alireza Moayyeri , Head of Salaam Global Foundation Board of Trustees and Amb. Assadi, Former Iran Ambassador to UN.

Dr. Ali Sadat Akhavi, Head of Center for Graduate International Studies of University of Tehran, Dr. Mohammadreza Takhshid, Dean of Faculty of Law and Political Science of University of Tehran and Dr. Homeira Moshirzadeh, Professor of International Relations at University of Tehran were also present.

In the beginning Dr. Sadat Akhavi welcomed the participants and introduced the speakers. Then Dr. Hadian explained about public diplomacy and his mutual experience with Dr. Mahallati in this field.

Then Dr. Moayyeri greeted the participants and appreciated Dr. Sadat Akhavi efforts for holding the meeting. He mentioned past meetings on subjects such as peace, youth, cultural diversity, intellectual property and friendship and emphasized on Salaam Global Foundation goal on raising awareness and producing literature on subjects less attended.

In continuing Dr. Mahallati talked about idea of friendship as a world view. While mentioning his ten year activity in field of friendship especially in Oberlin College, he said research on friendship in west has a long history and emphasized on importance of advancement of peace and friendship literature in Iran. Then he introduced the book, its subjects and writers.

Amb. Assadi made comments on Dr. Mahallati speech. He mentioned Dr. Mahallati experience and role in ending Iran Iraq War and adoption of UNSC resolution 598 and emphasized on importance of documenting them for next generations. 

At the end participants asked their questions and speakers answered them. Dr. Mahallati in response to one participants said concepts like human is wolf human is vanishing and we need paradigm shift in international relations and friendship is one of those paradigms.

On 24 October 1945 UN Charter became effective after ratification by its signatories including 5 permanent members of UNSC. Since 1948 until now 24 of October is celebrated as UN Day.

On 26 October 2017 a meeting was held on this occasion in Salaam Global Foundation IRDC Office. In the beginning Dr. Alireza Moayyeri, Head of SGF Board of Trustees introduced the program and welcome the participants.

After introduction Ambassador Bagher Asadi, former Iran representative to UN made his speech. He mentioned UN and UNSC unjust structure and said interaction with it is necessary. He explained his article in International Studied Journal, on Dr. Javad Zarif memory book which contains important points in interaction with UN. He said achieving international consensus is important and Dialogue among Civilizations and WAVE Resolutions are two important achievements for Iran. He also added that after fall of Soviet Union a new era for norm and international consensus building began in level of heads of states on issues like human rights, social development and population and important conferences were held in Cairo, Vienna and Rio.

He said Rohingya crisis is result of OIC weakness and conflict among powerful countries in this organization. He also mentioned emergence of non state players in international arena.

Yasser Salimi, Vice-Chair of IRDC of SGF also mentioned points such as USA withdrawn from UNESCO. He also considered documents like SDG 2013 as human collective thinking result and affirmed that political completions should not harm these results.

Finally participants made their questions and comments and meeting finished by summarizing.

The Great Silk Way Youth Camp was organized by the Great Silk Way International Youth Union with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sport. Two members of Salaam Global Foundation Youth Committee (Iranian Member of the Great Silk Way International Youth Union) also participated there.

The main goal of the project was to create a platform for the participation of foreign and local youth in the Summer Camp, contributing to the enhancement of their culture of tolerance, understanding of solidarity understanding and cooperation.

The 4-day camp will host training sessions on intercultural dialogue, mechanisms for propaganda and dissemination of solidarity ideas, project management, quality assurance in informal education, working groups have been set up to collaborate among the participants, and a number of local youth centers and meetings with organizations. Participants made presentations about their work they are experiencing on the subject they are experienced. After the presentation, the participants exchanged experiences and held a cultural event that reflected the traditions of different cultures at the end of each day. Visiting cultural monuments and museums of Baku was among other programs.

Meeting on International Day of Peace was held by Salaam Global Foundation on 20 September 2017 in “Iran Industries Managers Association” conference hall.

In the beginning Dr. Alireza Moayyeri, Head of SGF Board of Trustees welcomed the participants and condolence on occasion of month of Muharram. He briefly explained foundation and its committee’s activities including youth committee and international relations and diplomacy committee and invited all civil society organizations and people to act “together for peace” which is theme of this year international day of peace.

In the following speakers delivered their interventions and then answered questions made by participants.

Kambiz Khosravi, as first speaker mentioned peace situation in the world and major role of elites in it and asked for realization of global peace.

Next speaker Ghasem Rahimi, Secretary General of Soldier of Peace House emphasized on role of veterans in anti-war movement in every country. He added what is more powerful today from anti-war movement is non-violence.

In the end Sadeghi delivered his speech and described Geographical Determinism role in peace and equilibrium among nations. He added that what leads to violence and war is absence of holistic view to human community and highlighting differences and crediting them.