Doha: Winners of the third edition of Qatar Global Award for Dialogue Among Civilizations were announced in Doha on Monday.
Qatar Global Award For Dialogue Among Civilizations is organised by Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Qatar University represented by the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) at the College of Shariah and Islamic Studies.
A research on the role of the media in preventing and reducing hatred and building civilizational cooperation by Dr. Abdelkarim El Qalali from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fes, the Kingdom of Morocco, won the second place of the prize in its third edition.
It was unanimously agreed by the members of the Scientific Committee and the members of the external jury to withhold the first prize due to the lack of research that achieved the standards of excellence worthy of the value and prestige of the prize, symbolically and materially.
A research on hate speech and the problem of civilized communication by Dr. Ali bin Mubarak from the Community College of Qatar won the third place; while a research on the role of civilized communication in promoting coexistence by Prof. Dr. Khalif Mustafa Hassan Gharaibeh from Al-Balqa Applied University in the Kingdom of Jordan, and a research on social networks and its effects on activating discourse to reducing hate speech and enhancing coexistence by Dr. Abdul Salam Riyah won two incentive prizes.
The scientific committee of the award announced that the theme of the fourth edition of Qatar Global Award for Dialogue Among Civilizations 2022-23 will be ‘Science Dialogue: Towards a Civilized Framework for Knowledge Integration’ within one of the four areas around which the States plan revolves in the field of dialogue and alliance of civilizations - the field of education.
Commenting on the occasion, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Chairman of Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations H E Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi underlined that the third edition of Qatar Global Award for Dialogue Among Civilizations 2020-21 came within the framework of implementing the stated goals of the State of Qatar’s plan for the Alliance of Civilizations (2018-22), which emphasized the provision of awards for outstanding research work and funding of distinguished research in dialogue among civilizations.
He said that the Qatar Global Award for Dialogue Among Civilizations was launched in 2018 as the fruit of cooperation between Qatar Committee for the Alliance of Civilizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Qatar University represented by the ISESCO at the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, noting that allocating the award in its third session to the best research on the “role of Dawah and the media in consolidating the values of coexistence and preventing hate speech” comes within the framework of the efforts of the State of Qatar in issues of civilized dialogue, cultural communication and addressing extremist thought at the local and international levels; and embodying the goals and objectives of Qatar National Vision 2030 which calls for “care and support for the dialogue of civilizations and coexistence between different religions and cultures.”
For his part, President of Qatar University (QU) Dr. Hassan bin Rashid Al Derham praised the cooperation between Qatar University, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the ISESCO which resulted in this distinguished event, and commended the appreciated efforts of the winners and participating research.
QU President noted that the Award, which was launched four years ago, aimed at achieving various educational, research and development goals and outcomes, serving as the driving force for peoples energies towards progress, prosperity, openness to human horizons, and spreading a culture of harmony, tolerance, coexistence, understanding and mutual respect among nations and peoples.
Dr. Ezzedine Mamiche, Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Award, presented the most important stages in the process of sorting the international participations in the Award, noting that the committee received 238 abstracts in the three languages (Arabic, English and French) from 40 countries.
A total of 58 abstracts were accepted for the final stage. The researchers were given a full-time year to complete the research, stipulating precise scientific, methodological and technical standards.
