The Catholic University “OLGC” had been established in 2004, and it is one of the first initiatives of the private universities’ education in our country. It was founded to enable the education in Albania, for professionals with high European standards, competent to work in Albania, Europe, and the whole world, ready to face all the significant challenges of our country’s European Integration. The University is an integral part of the University Health Complex of the same name, which will be strictly linked with the Albanian Health System. This Complex is set to be en excellent point in Health Care Service in High Education and Scientific Research in Albania.
Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel,” by following the spirit of its Founder, helps in the development of university education, research, and continuous education in order to prepare graduates, experts, and specialists at European level, to form students with the best moral values, capable of helping in the material and spiritual development of society.
Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel” fulfills these duties through a university education of the highest level, an educational approach based on the highest and most updated standards of teaching and inspired by the principles of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church in particular on the respect of fundamental human rights, equality between members of society, different ethnicities, religions, and nationalities, according to a concept of Science in the service of man and of peaceful social coexistence.
The European Centre of Peace Science, Integration and Cooperation is intended to develop and support Peace Science. Peace science is now developing as interdisciplinary social Science in different Excellence universities, centers, and think-thank drawing heavily from different disciplines: economics, international relations, political science, in the first place, but also sociology, anthropology, religious anthropology, psychology. Peace science is both a positive and normative science. Peace science focuses first on the roots and causes of conflicts and on the design of policies to establish a lasting peace.
In particular, CESPIC approach to Peace is based on conceptual three pillars:
- First, CESPIC favors activities centered on the micro-foundations of Peace within societies. Consider, among others: local development, fight against poverty, inequality, conflict and conflict resolution between ethnic and religious minorities, social justice, empowerment of civil society, and economic policies for the construction of Peace.
- The second pillar focuses on the issues and the dynamics that subtend the achievement of a lasting peace between states and polities within the global system. In particular, CESPIC focuses on models of interaction between states which go beyond deterrence and arms race but emphasizes cooperation and Integration between states.
- The third pillar considers Peace as a global public good. Therefore it emphasizes the role and the attitude of the global institutions capable of Maintaining Peace in post-conflict scenes, develops global economic policies, tackles global issues like climate change, terrorism, forced migrations, and Transnational crime.
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