Pedro Gual Institute builds roadmap for new lines of research

Published at: 11/12/2024 01:41 PM

On the occasion of the completion of the academic year, the students of the “Pedro Gual” Institute for Higher Diplomatic Studies (IAEDPG), attached to the Ministry of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, held a meeting this Wednesday, at the Municipal Theater of Caracas, to build a road map for the transformation of the institution, with a view to achieving educational excellence, in the midst of a global geopolitical context that invites scholars of diplomatic relations to be at the forefront of creating new lines of research.

“We cannot continue studying as if nothing were happening in the world. What is the academy? It is an end in itself, a means that is not nourished only by the theoretical processes that are being systematized over time, but also by the challenges, the reality that requires us to deepen our research, greater capacity for critical thinking,” explained Pedro Sassone, director general of IAEDPG and Deputy Minister of Comprehensive Care for Venezuelan Migration.

He assured that IAEDPG students, within the framework of the birth of a new multicentric and multipolar world order, are committed to creating “new theories, new methodological approaches, new conceptual bases, new epistemological proposals” to consolidate Bolivarian Diplomacy for Peace.

By 2025, the IAEDPG plans to create a virtual field to improve learning processes and activate international cooperation to offer new master's degrees and doctorates, with Cuba being, in this regard, an important ally.

Likewise, “in the agreements, we plan to hold a series of seminars. There are several countries that ask us to cooperate and we have the conditions to exchange with researchers worldwide,” Sassone added.

The student Odalys Romero, in addition to expressing her pleasure at studying at the IAEDPG, showed herself with a “moral duty” to contribute to the development of proposals that would strengthen Venezuela's foreign policy.

“I think it's important to provide better ideas, better advances in the context of the new global geopolitics; in this new nascent, multicentric and multipolar world, which our Commander Hugo Chávez articulated and opened, and which our President Nicolás Maduro continues to promote and strengthen from peace,” he emphasized.

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