Department: IRD
The workshop in brief: The International Relations and Diplomacy Department organized a workshop on the occasion of World Freedom Day on November 9th, 2022. The World Freedom Day was declared first on November 9th, 2001, by the Former President of the United States of America, George W. Bush as a federal observance day to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989. However, it was on November 9th, 2005, that President Bush proclaimed November 9 as the World Freedom Day. Two distinguished speakers, Mr. Dana Sajadi and Asst. Prof. Dr. Basiru Musa presented papers on Freedom through the Lens of Liberalism and Freedom and Human Development in the Global South: Neocolonial Africa in Focus respectively.
Participants: 37 Departmental Student and University and FASE Staff
Place: Education Building hall #302 | Tishk International University – Erbil
Freedom through the Lens of Liberalism
Freedom and Human Development in the Global South: Neocolonial Africa in Focus respectively.
Dr. Basiru Musa, Tishk International University
Mr. Dana Sajadi, Tishk international University
The speakers explained freedom and liberalism and explained the gap in the current international liberal order and called for reform so that people around the world, especially in the periphery or developing world could be free to determine their own future. Also correlation between freedom and human development as one that cannot be disproved, hence the need for its observance by all concerned stakeholders through the creation of an enabling environment for the people to live their lives on their own terms, provided they do not trample upon other people’s rights has been explained
