On the sidelines of the Doha Forum 2024, the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilisations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and Qatar University (QU) organised a ceremony to honour the winners of the Qatar Global Award for Dialogue Among Civilisations 2024, which comes in its fourth session under the theme 'Science Dialogue: Towards a Civilised Framework for Knowledge Integration'.
In his speech on this occasion, HE Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilisations Dr Ahmed bin Hassan
al-Hammadi said that this award comes within the framework of the efforts made by Qatar at the local and international levels in the issues of civilisational dialogue and cultural communication; embodying the goals and objectives of Qatar National Vision 2030, which called for sponsoring and supporting the dialogue of civilisations, and coexistence between different religions and cultures.
He explained that the award, launched in 2018, made great strides over the past six years and has become the focus of attention of academic and research circles and institutions from various cultures, and has begun to attract researchers from various countries of the world. This is reflected in the increase in the number of applicants globally.
He added that this certainly adds to Qatar's credit, which was at the forefront of the countries of the world in supporting the UN Alliance of Civilisations initiative.
Dr al-Hammadi congratulated researcher Dr Medhat Maher al-Laithi from Egypt and Dr Younes El Khamlichi from Morocco on their award.
Dean of the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at QU Dr Ibrahim al-Ansari pointed out that this award was adopted by QU, the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilisations, and ISESCO to achieve various educational, research and developmental goals and outcomes that contribute to spreading the culture of coexistence, understanding and mutual respect among nations and people.
Chairman of the Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilisations and the QU president presented the award to Dr al-Laithi and Dr El Khamlichi.
At the end of the ceremony, Dr al-Hammadi and President of Qatar University Dr Omar bin Mohammed al-Ansari signed a co-operation agreement which aimed to implement joint programmes in fields of dialogue and alliance of civilisations and to contribute to spreading the culture of civilisational dialogue, to enhance understanding and coexistence between civilisations, religions, nations and people, to develop appropriate mechanisms to implement the proposed programmes between the two parties. (QNA)
