Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva

KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG
Address
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V, Rathausallee 12,
53757 Sankt Augustin
Phone +49 22 41/24 6-0
Fax +49 22 41/24 6-25 91
Web www.kas.de
E-Mail zentrale@kas.de
Category Dialogue
MISSION STATEMENT
The Konrad Adenauer Foundation is related to the Christian Democratic movement. Having emerged from the 'Society for Christian
Democratic Education Work' founded in 1956, it was named after the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic in 1964. We are guided
by the same principles that inspired Adenauer's work. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers political education, conducts scientific
fact-finding research for political projects, grants scholarships to gifted individuals, researches the history of Christian Democracy,
and supports and encourages European unification, international understanding, and development-policy cooperation.
Founding year 1956.
The foundation runs about 60 offices abroad. Its activities include:
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
� Summer School for young talents on democracy and intercultural dialogue.
� TV Magazine in Serbia on economics („Ekonomski PUT u Budutschnost“). The emission aims at educating the population in
economic issues and especially the transformation to a social market economy.
� Promotion of Parliaments in the Arab World: e.g. in Egypt with the cooperation of the University of Cairo.
� Re-empowering Iraqi Society
� Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis on statal structures to compare transitional processes among different
countries of the region.
� “Religion und Weltorientierung”: the foundation’s website contains a section on religion and values. E.g. on dialogue with
Islam, etc.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Khaltbari, B. (2006). Diskussion um die Religionspolizei entzweit die afghanische Gesellschaft. Kabul, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
REMARKS
The foundation has various other publications but none is explicitly related to religion and conflict. Though, a number of interesting
documents can be found in the section “Religion und Weltorientierung”: http://www.kas.de/publikationen/religion.html