Guest Speaker series The importance of a unified Kurdish front in Baghdad. Guest Speaker: Dr Bashir Haddad Hosted by the International Relations and Diplomacy department Participants: Students, TIU Staffs & Academicians Time: 10:00 AM Date: February 23, 2020 Venue: Room 302, Education Building Tishk International University, Erbil, Iraq
On December 24th, IRD students presented their posters about Ancient and Modern Political Thinkers. The posters had a healthy mix of both ancient and modern thinkers. Thirteen female students were encouraged and worked on female political thinkers. Most of them shared that it was a liberating experience for them. Some are motivated to follow in their footsteps. The presentation was presided over by Dr. Fatih Cura, the Dean of FASE. He patiently and with utmost attention visited each poster and interacted with the presenter. The oral presentation by students enabled them to interact with the Dean and fortified their oral communication [...]
On December 4th, 2019, the International Relations Office of TIU in collaboration with the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy (IRD) of the University organised a workshop for the Consul General of the Republic of Korea to Kurdistan. The Consul General, Dr. Choi Kwang-Jin was first welcomed by the President of the University, Dr Idris Hadi, and Head of the International Relations Office, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Öztaş. Following this, and meeting between the sides, Dr. Kwang-Jin was welcomed by staff and students from the IRD Department. Dr. Kwang-Jin then presented a lecture on “practical diplomacy” for the students, which was then [...]
International Relations and Diplomacy Department (IRD) of TIU together with Peace and Freedom Organization (PFO) arranged a workshop on “Coexistence and Ethnic-based Discrimination in the Kurdistan Region”. The workshop which was held on Thursday, December 28,2019, in the Main Building of TIU, was attended by students of the Faculty of Administrative Science and Economics and a number of PFO and TIU staff. The workshop consisted of two parts: in the first part, Dr. Dilshad Hamad, Head of IRD, presented a talk on the issue of coexistence in the post-ISIS Kurdistan Region. The second part consisted of a group work and discussion [...]
On December 18th, 2019 (the 40th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women – CEDAW), the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy of TIU organised an event in collaboration with Y-peer Network and Messalla Organisation. The first part of the event consisted of a number of presentations in relation to CEDAW and women’s rights issues. This was then followed by an educational session for the students. The aim of the workshop, in which a number of the university’s lecturers and staff attended, in addition to students, was to improve the students’ knowledge about CEDAW, [...]
On December 17th, the students of International Relations and Diplomacy Department visited the EU delegation in Kurdistan Region Mr. Vincent Guillaume Poupeau. Mr. Vincent Guillaume Poupeau gave a brief on European Union and specifically mentioned a detailed expectations on EU's projects in Iraq and Kurdistan Region. As he highlighted, EU has a lot of Humanitarian projects in Iraq in partnership with other International and local partners. Most of these projects are humanitarian and agricultural. Students later asked many questions related to their lecture and also to their topics.
As a tradition of the department, every year a group of students from the International Relations and Diplomacy department pay a field visit to the Kurdistan parliament. On December 11th. 2019, accompanied by the head of department and a number of staff from the department first and second year students visited Parliament. The visit which was well-organized by the Parliament Presidency included a presentation by Mr. Hemn Hawrami, deputy parliament speaker in which he covered Parliament Diplomacy and it was followed by a very instructive question and answer session where students came up with timely questions and the deputy speaker provided [...]
In collaboration with the Peace and Freedom Organization (PFO), International Relation and Diplomacy department will organize a joint workshop entitled ' Coexistence and Ethnic-based discrimination in the Kurdistan Region'. The workshop aims to address the most timely topic of coexistence in the Kurdistan Region and issue around ethnic-based discrimination especially, in the post-ISIS era. Details of the workshop is given below: Date: November 28.2019 Time: 10:00-13:00 Venue: Rooms 323 & 402 Main Building, Erbil Campus, Tishk International University
International Relations and Diplomacy department in collaboration with Y-Peer Network will organize a joint workshop entitled ' GBV and Gender Equality'. The workshop will be held on December 18.2019 which coincides with 40th anniversary of the adaptation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) back in 1979. Details of the workshop are given below: Date: December 18.2019 Place: Rooms 223 & 401, Education Building, Erbil Campus, Tishk International University. Time: 10:00-13:00
As part of its Guest Speaker Series which is running this academic year, International Relations and Diplomacy department hosted Mr. Hemn Hawrami, deputy speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament. Read more from here
