Darwis Khudori
Darwis Khudori
Writer, architect and historian specialised in the Contemporary Arab and Muslim World, Darwis Khudori is Associate Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Le Havre, France, member of GRIC (Group of Research on Identity and Culture) and Director of Master's Degree in International Management specialised in Exchanges with Asia, at the same university. He is the initiator and coordinator of the Bandung Spirit Network, an academic and civil society movement based on the spirit of the 1995 Bandung Conference, and Bandung Spirit Book Series as a way to develop sciences in developing countries through book publication in cooperative way in order to make academic books affordable to readers in the developing world. The last book published in this framework is Religious Diversity in a Globalised Society: Challenges and Responses in Africa and Asia, a co-publication of Indonesian, Philippine, French, Lebanese and Dutch academic institutions, 2013.
Bandung Legacy and Global Future
2015 was the year of the 60th anniversary of the 1955 Bandung Asian-African Conference. Several manifestations of commemoration of this turning point in world history were organised along the year ...
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