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Staff (4)
Our current staff consist of:
- Co-Director - Maral Jefroudi
- Co-Director - Alex de Jong
- Commercial manager - Aat van Wijk
- Librarian - Arend van de Poel
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Former directors (13)
Few people have contributed to forming and developing the Institute like our former directors. We would like to thank each of them for the great amount of work they have done to make the institute what it is today.
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The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) Islamabad is an independent chapter of IIRE Amsterdam. IIRE Islamabad is established in 2010 in collaboration with Amsterdam office. Now the institute is functioning independently with the aim to develop a cadre of political, human rights and peace activists to strengthen the democratic and progressive environment for the development of society.
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Daniel Bensaïd (1946 - 2010) was a french academic, philosopher and activist. Professor of philosophy at University Paris VIII - Saint-Denis. He became politically active during the 1968 students movement, where he was a prominent figure. He is mostly known for hisstudies on Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx and French postmodernism.
Daniel have written extensively and regularly contributes to international debates concerning anticapitalist strategy and perspectives. The major part of his production is in French, but some of his works are also available in Spanish, Italian, English, Portugese, German, Turkish, Vietnamese and Japanese.
Selected publications:
- Mai 68, Une répétition générale (en collaboration avec Henri Weber),
Paris, Maspero, 1968. - Le deuxième souffle, problèmes du mouvement étudiant (en collaboration
avec Camille Scalabrino), Paris, Maspero, 1969. - Portugal, une révolution en marche (en collaboration avec Charles-André
Udry et Michael Löwy), Paris, 10/18,1975. - Les haillons de l'utopie, Paris, La Brèche, 1980.
- Marx ou pas ? (collectif : Denis Berger, Jean-Marie Brohm, François
Chatelet, Jean-Claude Delaunay, Henri Lefebvre, Daniel Lindenberg,
Michael Löwy, Ernest Mandel, Claude Meillassoux, Robert Paris...),
Paris, EDI, 1986. - Mai si ! 1968-1988, rebelles et repentis (avec Alain Krivine), Paris, La
Brèche 1988. - Permanences de la Révolution (collectif : Etienne Balibar, Denis Berger,
François Dosse, Florence Gauthier, Georges Labica, Olivier Lecour
Grandmaison, Michel Lequenne, Michaël Löwy, Michèle Riot-Sarcey, Patrick
Tort...). Paris, La Brèche 1989. - Walter Benjamin, sentinelle messianique, Paris, Plon, 1990.
- Marx l'intempestif, Fayard, Paris, 1995.
(published in english, spanish, portugese and vietnamese ; being published in italian) - Le retour de la question sociale (en collaboration avec Christophe
Aguiton), Editions Page 2, Lausanne, 1997. - Qui est le juge ? Pour en finir avec le tribunal de l'histoire. Fayard,
Paris, 1999.
(as well in portugese edition) - Le sourire du spectre. Nouvel esprit du communisme. Paris, Michalon, 2000.
Les Irréductibles. Théorèmes de la résistance à l'air du temps. Paris,
Textuel, 2001.
(as well in english, spanish and turkish editions) - Résistances. Essai de taupologie générale (illustré par Wiaz). Paris,
Fayard, 2001.
(as well in turkish and spanish edition) - Le Nouvel internationalisme, Paris, Textuel, 2003
(as well in spanish edition) - Un Monde à changer, Paris, Textuel, 2003.
(as well in german and spanish edition) - Une lente impatience, Paris, Stock, 2004
- Fragments mécréants, Paris, Lignes, 2005
- Edition critique de Sur la Question juive de Marx, Paris, La Fabrique, 2006.
Clases, plebes, multitudes (Santiago du Chili, ed Palinodia, et Caracas,
ed. El Perro y la Rana, 2006)¨
A bilingual award-winning author of more than 40 books and countless articles on Latin America, Mexico, globalization, and labor migration, Dr. James D. Cockcroft (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1966) has been described by the American Library Association's Choice magazine as "an internationally known and distinguished scholar." A bilingual poet and life-long human rights activist, he is best known as a Latin America expert, writer, and public speaker. His multilingual blog is www.jamescockcroft.com.
Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Emerit Research Director in Sociology at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris, since 1978. Silver Medal of the CNRS as the best social scientist in 1994. Guest Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, since 1981.
Research:
The IIRE sees it as an obligation to conduct research which can be used by progressive forces around the globe - to change or affect the social reality, that they face. This research takes different forms, but are generally carried out in close collaboration with movements 'on the ground' on the one hand and skilled scholars on the other. We hope that by bringing together these two different groups in concrete projects helps to open up new ways of perceiving the challenge that faces social activists today.
Our network of Fellows is paramount to the conducting of our actual research.
Fellows:
During our lifetime, we have been fortunate enough to establish regular contacts with several researchers, some of whom have chosen to become fellows of the institute, supporting it morally and scientifically.
A list of our fellows can be found here
Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the London School of Oriental and African Studies
How you can help
The IIRE is an active institute, which is proud of its achievements. We want to expand our activities, which we feel are badly needed in the present world situation. We invite everybody who agrees with our aims to help us with the further development of our project, financially or through other forms. Founded in Belgium, we were officially recognized as an international scientific foundation by a Royal Decree of 11 June 1981. Contributions to our work are tax-deductible in several countries, for example in the US through the Centre for Changes International Fund.
Compared to other similar institutions, we carry out our work with an absurdly low budget. We receive no government subsidies. No money is spent on high staff salaries, public relations or luxurious meals or accomodations for participants. Everything is done with a minimal staff, with unpaid international Fellows and volunteers who often pay all or part of their fares to and from Amsterdam, and with the labour contributed by the participants themselves. We could not have launched and maintained t he IIRE without the help of many people: not just donors, but the many volunteers who have come from several countries to help with painting, repairs, and electrical work.
We are also grateful to the friends who have left their libraries to us in their wills; and particularly our lecturers, translators and interpreters, many of whom wholly or partly donate their services. This multi-faceted help will be as essential in the next century as it has been in our first two decades. If you can help in any of these ways, please contact us. Despite these contributions, the Institute costs money. We need money for plane fares: plane fares from the Third World must more and more often be completely covered by the Institute. We need money for our building, which though beautiful is old. We have carried out major renovations and improvements in recent years, but more are needed....
We also need money for food (although participants cook for themselves during their stays). We need money for gas, water, light, heat, property taxes, photocopying, phone calls.... In recent years we have benefited from the support of Germany's Jakob Moneta Stiftung, Canada's Kimeta Society and Sweden's Tom Gustafsson Memorial Fund, as well as from generous legacies in one or two wills. But regular, annual, individual donations remain crucial to our survival. We confront simultaneously a rise in costs and a struggle to find new donations. We are doing our part to breathe new life into hope and faith in the future. But we can only do it with new sources of financial support: we must acquire new donors if the Institute is to maintain and expand its work. We rely on your help.
IIRE has signed a contract with the Dutch Foundation for Research and Education in Scientific Socialism (SOWS). The SOWS has decided to support the political and educational activities held at the Institute. Such activities include Youth, Women, Middle East, LGBTT and Climate Change Schools and Seminars, plus IIRE publications. In return IIRE will ask it supporters to become a donor for SOWS. SOWS will use these funds exclusively for IIRE but decides on a yearly basis which activities of IIRE will be supported. We encourage our readers to consider testament pledges and other donations. Suggested regular donations from IIRE friends are 25, 50 and 100 euros, but any donation will of course be appreciated.
Bertil Videt holds degrees in Political Science and International Relations, from the University of Copenhagen and Middle East Technical University (Ankara).
He has previously worked as interpreter, journalist and immediate before taking up his position at the IIRE as research coordinator for "Promoting Romani Rights in Turkey".
Bertil Videt has written articles on a number of topics, including European Affairs, Middle East, Turkey, The Political Role of the Military, Minorities and Social Movements. His articles have been published in 10 languages.
Fluency: English, French, Danish.
Working knowledge: Dutch, Spanish, Turkish.
Bertil Videt was co-director from 2007 to 2010.
