Austria

My main fields of research are: - women and islam - social and political change in Turkey - new social movements - migration. During the last years I mainly focused on migration issues.

Since 1991, Initiative Minderheiten has been advocating for and contributing to creating a society that acknowledges and affords equal treatment and equal rights to minorities in their individual life concepts regardless of their ethnic, social or religious affiliation, sexual orientation or dis/ability. A society can only be considered to have acknowledged minority rights if it facilitates and supports different life concepts in a fair and equal manner. Initiative Minderheiten works towards creating minority alliances.
IM defines a minority as people who experience discrimination based on their ethnic, social or religious affiliation, sexual orientation or dis/ability. Politically, discrimination means excluding certain people from certain rights; socially, it means experiencing prejudices and exclusions. This definition is not based on a group’s number of members, but rather on their lack of power in comparison to that of the hegemonic majority.

The Afro-Asian Institute of Vienna is a centre of dialogue between the nations. It was founded in 1959 sponsored by of the Cardinal Franz Kanig, former archbishop of Vienna.
The Afro-Asian institute is a place of oecumenical, inter religious and intercultural dialogue. It constitutes a real Afro-Asian world located at the centre of Vienna .

The joint aim is interdisciplinary historical and archaeological research in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The objectives of the Institute are to conduct research into political and social conflicts at an interdisciplinary level and to generate possible solutions designed to provide advice for political decision-making. These activities are underpinned by basic research.

The Institute is committed to the principles and values of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular to respect the fundamental rights and dignity of alle human beings and of all nations. Its aim is to contribute to the development of sustainable social systems in particular in emerging democracies. The Institute is a non-partisan organisation and supports pluralist democracy.

In research and teaching the institute focusses on the history of the 20th and the beginning 21st century in the region (Tyrol, Vorarlberg, South Tyrol), Austria, and Europe as well as the Mediterranean and the Americas - in a global perspective and with their transnational connections.
Main areas of interest are: international (diplomatic) history, cultural history, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, migration, intellectual history, Digital Humanities, cultures of memory/politics of history.

We are offering courses in the field of integration and migration focusing on information, values, laws, and skills that are useful for peacefully living together. The Integrationswerkstatt team embarces interculurality and diversity. Living in a diverse societey that offers freedom, peace and justice through life long education probrams is our main objective.

Intercultural Education
In a situation of confusion, where individual knowledge, social forms of behavior, and personal action can no longer rely on established traditions for guidance, education becomes key. Education signifies not only the communication of knowledge and skills, it also appertains to the development of social skills and personal integrity.
The aim of intercultural education is to communicate insights, to reinforce motivations, and to encourage forms of action that empower people to exercise their basic rights and to contribute actively to the shaping of democratic, pluralistic societies.
Interkulturelles Zentrum’s aims and field of work
The work of Interkulturelles Zentrum gives priority to self-reflective, experience-oriented, and social learning processes before the receptive acquisition of knowledge and the practice of purely technical exercises. Personal encounters and joint action are contributions considered central to the development of an awareness a

The aim of the IIP is to make well-founded information about developments actually or potentially threatening peace available to the public. Relevant research projects in cooperation with Austrian and international experts provide findings in the fields of economy, society and peaceful conflict resolution to governments and international organizations.