The two-day international conference “Embracing Diversity: Tackling Islamophobia in 2024” in Baku completed its work, and the participants adopted a joint final communiqué.
The Center of Analysis of International Relations and the Baku International Multiculturalism Centre in partnership with the G20 Interfaith Dialogue Forum AND Baku Initiative Group held the conference titled “Embracing Diversity: Tackling Islamophobia in 2024” on 8-9 March 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Starting in 2023, this is the second conference which was organized in Azerbaijan with the aim of contributing to combating Islamophobia in all its forms and manifestations.
The conferences included the address by H.E. Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mr. Yousef M. Al-Dobeay, Assistant Secretary-General of Political Affairs of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and Prof. Cole Durham, President of the G20 Interfaith Dialogue Forum.
Among the participants of the two days debate were many officials, spiritual leaders, experts and academicians – Mr. Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Affairs of the Presidential Administration, H.V. Sheikh Ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade, the Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board, Mr. Khalid Fathalrahman Omer Mohamed, Director of the Center for Civilizational Dialogue at ICESCO, Dr. Dodik Ariyanto, Head of the OIC Islamophobia Observatory, and many other dignitaries, scholars and media representatives – total 130 delegates from 31 countries.
The conference reiterated the primary responsibility of international organizations and national governments to expand the existing legal instruments and policy measures which are not enough to counter stereotypes about Islam and Muslims.
The participants have also visited the city of Shusha, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan and witnessed the cultural destruction during the years of the Armenian occupation."
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