News and Notifications

The International Relations and Diplomacy Department congratulates its members of Academic staff on the issuance of appreciation and overall very satisfactory Quality Assurance letters for their excellent performance during the 2021-2022 Academic Year by the University. The Department enjoins them to see this as a good form of motivation to continue to put in their best for the development of the Department, Faculty and University.

The Fourth week’s sessions (1,2,3) of the qualitative research training course, being organized by the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Tishk International University, were held and delivered successfully by the course instructor, Dr. Mohammad Salih on 6th October, 2022. The week covered Research Ethics: meaning and importance, Ethical issues in research, Classifications and Library.  

The International Relations and Diplomacy Department is honored to receive a delegation from the STOP Organization on 19th September, 2022, with whom the IRD Department plans to do its community service in October, 2022. Further areas of collaboration, such as joint workshops, conferences and participation in each other's activities were discussed.

The third week's sessions (1,2,3) of the qualitative research training course, being organized by the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Tishk International University, were held and delivered successfully by the course instructor, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Arabaci on 15th  September, 2022. The week covered Data Collection Methods for Qualitative Research: Document Analysis, Interview, Observation, Focus Group Discussion, Discourse Analysis, etc., Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA): A case of Thematic Analysis, Validity & Reliability in Qualitative Data

The second week's sessions (1,2,3) of the qualitative research training course, being organized by the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Tishk International University, were held and delivered successfully by the course instructor, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Arabaci on 8th  September, 2022. The week covered Research: Research Design: How to Set Research Questions, Objectives, Propositions or Hypotheses; Literature Review: Meaning, Importance, Types & Sources; and How to Organize Literature Review in an Article, Project or Scientific Manuscript.   

The Department of International Relations and Diplomacy is honored to host Mr. Jeremy Barker, The RFI Senior Program Officer and Director, Middle East Action Team. The Department discussed areas of collaboration with him, with a view to ensuring religious freedom, tolerance, stability and development in the region and the world.

The IRD Department is pleased to announce that, it has emerged one of the top departments at Tishk International University from the student feedback survey with 4.2 score for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Department would like to express its sincere gratitude to the University management for providing it with the enabling environment to function as an academic unit. The Department is also grateful to the staff for their commitment and students for their fair assessment.

The first week's sessions (1,2,3) of the qualitative research training course, being organized by the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Tishk International University, were held and delivered successfully by the course instructor, Asst. Prof. Dr. Basiru Musa on 1st September, 2022. The week covered Research: Meaning and Raison d'être, Research Paradigms: Positivism, Post-Positivism, Social Constructivism/Interpretivism, Pragmatism and Critical Theory. It also covered Typology of Research and Differences between Qualitative and Quantitative Research.