Who Are We
(CEMOFPSC) was created in 2006 with the objective to promote the investigation and analysis of questions related to the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Egypt and Jordon) with a desire to contribute a wider knowledge about different cultures and peoples in order to work towards building peace.
Its international character and multidiscipline focus proposes to facilitate thought, study, the exchange of opinions among intellectuals and experts in a wide variety of fields such as: sociology, history, economy, communication, ethics, law, politics and development cooperation. The aim is to offer a wider knowledge of elements that compose the social reality in these countries. It will present suggestions, which, through a non-political, impartial, and well-balanced perspective, can aid the search for peaceful solutions which will promote social and human development and a commitment to dialogue and reconciliation.
The persons and institutions that make up the CEMOFPSC or participate in their activities, share a joint vision for society and the individual based on justice and a profound respect for free thinking; whose objectives should contribute to social progress as well as create an understanding among countries to seek peace and the common good for man.
On Feb. 3, 2007, CEMOFPSC began their public activity with opening conferences by Nadim Shehadi, Associate Fellow in Middle East programs in Chatham House (England), and Ana Menéndez, Spanish diplomat who was ambassador to the United Nations.
Mrs. Pilar Lara, President of The Foundation for The Social Promotion of Culture (FSPC) and member of CEMOFPSC´s executive committee summarizes the character of work for the new studies center:
“After almost two decades of work supporting the development of social communities in the Middle East countries, the FSCP has created the Center for Middle Eastern Studies(CEMOFSCP) whose mission is to answer an urgent call for peace and justice. This initiative is created as a Think Tank to generate and transmit knowledge at the same time that it proposes solutions.
The CEMOFSCP organization model must focus on scientific excellence and a multidiscipline methodology with the capacity to endure in a national and international setting.
Development is not possible without peace and a stable climate in which there is productive work; in order for peace to exist there must be an authentic dialogue that is upheld by the mainstay of knowledge; thus, development, peace, dialogue and knowledge can only be attainable through time.
The FSPC, aware that the construction of such a plan for each state is a subsidiary of the other and whose foundation is knowledge, starts-up the CEMOFSPC today as a definite answer.”
