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Kalima Center for Dialogue and Cooperation

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Kalima Center for Dialogue and Cooperation
AbbreviationKCDC
Formation2007
TypeNon-governmental organization
Legal statusFoundation
HeadquartersNajaf Governorate, iraq
Location
Region served
Al the world
president of the center
AlAllameh Alsayyed Salih AlHakeem
Websiteal-kalima.iq

Kalima Center for Dialogue and Cooperation (KCDC)[1] is an academic and religious institution in the Shiite holy city of Najaf which represents the religious and scientific heritage of Najaf. The center hosts academics, strategic experts, journalists, and representatives of civil society in order to foster mutual respect between religious and non-religious societies.

History

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The opportunity for expanding the religious and cultural dialogue in Iraq became available after the regime change in 2003 . The KCDC is non-governmental and was founded by Grand Ayatollah Al Sayyed Mohammed Said Al-Hakeem.

The Aims

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  • Building communication bridges between societies .
  • Open up the horizons of cooperation between religious and scientific institutions in Holy Najaf on one side and cultural, scientific organizations of the world on the other side .
  • Understanding religious and cultural particulars of humanitarian groups .
  • Benefiting from successful humanitarian experience .

Achievements

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  • A sequence of dialogues in cultural and religious field .
  • Several conferences and symposiums internal and external of Iraq .
  • Traveling of tens of academic between Iraq and external world .

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References

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  1. ^ "Kalima Center for Dialogue and Cooperation". Archived from the original on 2016-01-26. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  2. ^ الانجازات Archived 2016-01-26 at the Wayback Machine