DOHA: Qatar University recently established Ibn Khaldun Center for Human and Social Sciences that aims to achieve leadership in the field of human and social sciences at the local and external levels, making it the preferred platform for researchers and scientific initiative-takers.
The Center’s work is structured around four main parallel themes: knowledge production, which is the contribution of the Center through its researchers to the introduction of established knowledge-based production that contributes to meeting the needs of society and knowledge assessment to provide critical and evaluative studies on human knowledge heritage in its human and social branches with a view to possess a knowledge system that reflects the identity of the community and its needs.
In addition to knowledge management in order to manage the knowledge produced by researchers through attracting research projects, contributing to their systematic development, and linking them to projects intersecting with them and knowledge marketing through local, regional and international promotion of knowledge production.
Dr Nayef Nahar Al Shamari (pictured), Director of Ibn Khaldun Center for Human and Social Sciences, said: “Human and social sciences study human and social phenomena to draw up a methodology to deal with them. These studies are the main keys to build social awareness through which societies can understand the ways communities interact with each other and with the world. From this comes the importance of this center to understand the economic, political, religious and language effects on these phenomena through a proper intellectual theoretical approach.”
Furthermore, the Center intends to be a reliable knowledge broker between the community and its intellectual issues by framing the issues related to the human and social affairs in an established scientific framework that is away from the random culture. Also, it will contribute to the reform of the social sciences cognitive structure in light of the three philosophical frameworks: modernization, Cross-cultural interaction, and Realism.
In addition, the Center will address intellectual problems that are established in community awareness and will present scientific studies related to the developments of the regional and international experiences.
