Indifference as a treatable disease. Social research, communication and education as strategies for the pursuit of human rights

The theme of the conference “Minorities and diasporas in Turkey: pub- lic images and issues in education” is fully in line with the objectives of a broader, multidisciplinary project promoted by our university, in- volving sociologists, psychologists, jurists, scholars and experts in in- ternational cooperation, media and law enforcement representatives. The title of the project is quite significant: “Indifference as a treatable disease. Social Research as platform for a model in communication and education of Human Rights”. The project, which follows the path advocated by the most recent na- tional, European and international human rights initiatives, aims to in- crease knowledge on the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, responding to a need increasingly felt by the whole of civil society.