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The Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (DOC-research) is an independent, non-governmental organization that performs research on issues of international relations and international security. It was co-founded by Vladimir Yakunin, Peter W. Schulze, and Walter Schwimmer, the former Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The three were also co-founders of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute. The institute’s primary activities consist of developing recommendations for avoiding conflict and reducing global tension. The institute’s headquarters are in Berlin, and it has an office in Moscow. .

History
The DOC Research Institute was opened on July 1, 2016. The work of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute is based on 15 years of experience at the Dialogue of Civilizations World Public Forum. On November 9, 2001, on the initiative of Iranian leader Mohammad Khatami, the member countries of UNESCO unanimously accepted the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, and the UN General Assembly declared World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, defining the principles of inter-cultural dialogue that must be maintained, along with the goals that must be reached. Dialogue of Civilizations arose as an attempt to make this initiative a practical reality.

In 2002, the Indian entrepreneur and futurologist Jagdish Kapur, and the American businessman of Greek descent Nicholas F.S. Papanicolaou became the founders of Dialogue of Civilizations. Over its fifteen-year history, Dialogue of Civilizations has held over 100 seminars, round tables and lectures, and organized over 30 regional conferences in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The largest yearly event of Dialogue of Civilizations is the Rhodes Forum

Rhodes Forum
The Rhodes Forum has been a yearly event since 2002, organized by Dialogue of Civilizations. In the future, this forum will become a central event of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute. In 2016, just as in previous years, the forum will be held in Greek in Rhodes. The topic of the forum is “The Chaos of Multiplicity: an Urgent Call for Dialogue”.

Research activity
The institute’s primary fields of research are the following:


 * Civilisations Against the Threat of Social Regress (New Barbarism)
 * Economics of Postmodernity: When Conventional Models Fail
 * Life Space for Humanity: Protection of the Humane in Humans
 * Policies, Institutions and Processes for Global Inclusive Development
 * East and West: Bridging the Post-Modernity (post-“Global”?) Gap
 * Infrastructure as the Backbone of Global Inclusive Development

Supervisory board

 * Fred Dallmayr - packey J. Dee Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, Co-chairman of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations
 * Vladimir Fortov - president of the Russian Academy of Sciences
 * Alfred Gusenbauer - former Federal Chancellor of Austria, Co-chairman of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations
 * Václav Klaus - former Czech President
 * Harald Kujat - chair of the Advisory Council, Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
 * Armen Sarkissian - entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Former Prime Minister of Armenia, Armenian Ambassador to the UK
 * Peter W. Schulze - co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute
 * Walter Schwimmer - former Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Co-chairman of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations, Co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute
 * Ruben Vardanyan - entrepreneur and philanthropist
 * Li Xin (China) - professor, director of Institute for Economic Comparative Studies; Director of the Department of Russian and Central Asian Studies, the Shanghai Institute for International Studies
 * Vladimir Yakunin - co-founder of the WPF Dialogue of Civilizations, co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute