(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
The 6th Annual Conference on the Social Sciences and Humanities organized by Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) concluded yesterday at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
The sessions of the three-day conference were focused on two themes: 'Ethics in Arab-Islamic Civilization and 'Arab Youth: Migration and the Future.
The ten sessions of the conferences under the first theme focused on the meaning of ethics in Muslim philosophers' thoughts specially in Andalusia seeking better understanding the concept of ethics in Mu'tazila's philosophy, Ash'arism and Sufism.
Researchers tried to address these points against the question of moral and ethics in contemporary Arab and Muslim situation in light of the concepts of modernity, globalization and democracy.
Some of the researchers raised these issues within the context of the contemporary life and the current scientific advances raising the question of ethics and morality in relation to the prevailing practices of human genome, organ transplantation, surrogacy , artificial intelligence and networking presence in social media platforms.
On the second issue of Arab Youth, migration and future, researchers addressed the ongoing migration from different points of views analyzing reasons and consequences of the youth migration . some argued that the youth are escaping from poor economic conditions longing for better living conditions.
As well many of the papers dealt with situation of Arab migrants in the hosting countries and how the hosting societies look at them and the perception of migration among people in their countries of origin.
The research papers shed light on the types of migration differentiating between legal and illegal migration, migration for education, women's migration, brain drain and means to attract these human capital to the counties of their origin.
At a time where vast majority of migrations are targeting the Western countries some of the papers highlighted reasons standing behind migration of youth from some Arab and Western countries to the conflict zones like Syria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen to join extremist groups.
One of the major factors triggering migration of Arab youth is the economical factor which has been addressed in the last day session. Due to the economic development problems in many Arab countries the increasing number of work forces have remained unemployed, the speakers emphasized.
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