The German-Israeli psychologist and award-winning author of Arab-Palestinian origin Ahmad Mansour talks about "Fanaticism versus tolerance – multicultural societies and their challenges".
Thursday, 05. October 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOH-B-10
One of the most urgent tasks of our society is integration. Up to now, state and society have faced this task haphazardly; there is a lack of concrete and long-term concepts. After all, integration means not only taking in people, but above all the internalisation of basic values and an emotional arrival. To achieve this, we have to accompany people, pursue a different housing and school policy, create encounters. For this, we need an open and objective debate.
In the course of this event, the SIAF Award 2023 will be presented.
Admission is free. No pre-registration necessary. No seat reservation possible.
This event will be live-streamed and provided for replay.
Ahmad Mansour is a psychologist and author from Berlin. Born in Kfar Saba in 1976, he holds Israeli and German citizenship. In 2018, Mansour founded "Mind Prevention", an initiative for democracy promotion and extremism prevention. He is also persistently committed to combating anti-Semitism. 2022 saw the publication of his fourth book, "Operation Allah. Wie der politischen Islam unsere Demokratie unterwandern will" (Operation Allah. How political Islam wants to infiltrate our democracy; S.-Fischer-Verlag). He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Carl von Ossietzky Prize for Contemporary History and Politics, the Human Rights Prize of the Gerhart and Renate Baum Foundation and the Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon. The theological faculty of the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2022.