{"id":727,"date":"2014-09-26T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fppr.ihsandemiray.com\/index.php\/?p=727"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T09:37:59","slug":"international-conference-on-educational-exchange-peace-and-development-held-at-bilkent-september-26-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/en\/2014\/09\/international-conference-on-educational-exchange-peace-and-development-held-at-bilkent-september-26-27-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference on Educational Exchange, Peace and Development, Held at Bilkent, September 26-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cInternational Educational Exchange and the Promotion of Peace, Development, and Intercultural Understanding\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An international academic conference jointly organized by the Turkish Fulbright Commission, the \u0130hsan Do\u011framac\u0131 Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research and the Hollings Center for International Dialogue was held on September 26 and 27.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, on the topic of \u201cInternational Educational Exchange and the Promotion of Peace, Development, and Intercultural Understanding,\u201d was held at the C-Block Auditorium. It opened with welcoming remarks by Prof. Ersel Ayd\u0131nl\u0131, Executive Director of the Turkish Fulbright Commission and Bilkent International Relations department faculty member; Michael Carroll, Executive Director of the Hollings Center for International Dialogue; Prof. Ali Do\u011framac\u0131, President of Bilkent University; and Ross Wilson, Charge d\u2019Affaires at the US Embassy in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speech was given by Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and a Fulbright alumnus. Topics discussed at the conference by academics from Turkey, Europe, and the United States included \u201cEducational Exchange and Peace\/Development Promotion\u2014Understanding the Connection,\u201d \u201cThe Role of Language in the Educational Exchange\/Peace &amp; Development Promotion Connection\u201d and \u201cThe History and Impact of Educational Exchange in Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"owl_slider slider-large content-sliders owl-carousel builder_slider\">\n<div class=\"item_slide\"><a class=\"feature-link\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fppr.ihsandemiray.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AYB_9749.jpg\" \/><\/a><div class=\"item_slide_caption shortcode_slider\"><h1> Ali BABACAN <\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"item_slide\"><a class=\"feature-link\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fppr.ihsandemiray.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AYB_9727.jpg\" \/><\/a><div class=\"item_slide_caption shortcode_slider\"><h1> <\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"item_slide\"><a class=\"feature-link\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fppr.ihsandemiray.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AYB_9684.jpg\" \/><\/a><div class=\"item_slide_caption shortcode_slider\"><h1> <\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInternational Educational Exchange and the Promotion of Peace, Development, and Intercultural Understanding\u201d An international academic conference jointly organized by the Turkish Fulbright Commission, the \u0130hsan Do\u011framac\u0131 Center for Foreign Policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshop-conference"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}