Voronezh State University suggested creating a research network “Peace and War in European Security Challenges” and will be its coordinator. The network includes the world leading research and education centres such as the University of Göttingen (Germany), Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies (France), the University of Seville (Spain), the Kore University of Enna (Italy), Dokuz Eylül University (Izmir, Turkey), and the Centre for strategic studies in Jordan. Other Russian universities taking part in the project are Kuban State University and Perm State National Research University.
The network includes leading researchers in international relations, diplomacy, international law, geopolitics, history, theology, social sciences, and cultural studies as well as experts in security issues, human rights, racism, migration, and combating extremism.
Voronezh State University is the second university in Russia to become the coordinator of a Jean Monnet research project.
The project will last three years (September 2018 – September 2021) and will include a number of large international conferences, workshops, and public lectures, as well as publishing research articles by scientists, experts, students, postgraduates, and reporters.
The project provides the academic community of the participating countries with an open platform for exchanging views and opinions on various security issues. The events organised within the project will discuss the issues of perception of security threats and sources of conflicts by the EU, Russia, and Middle East, including Turkey. The participants will also consider religious, social, and cultural challenges, as well as regional strategies in international security and the problem of human rights protection in times of conflicts.
