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WVSA releases WVS-6 report on "Social Values and Attitudes in the MENA Region" (2012-2014) The World Values Survey Association releases WVS-6 report on "Social Values and Attitudes in the MENA Region". Report is based on the WVS (2012-2014) survey data collected in 12 countries and societies in the Middle East. Project has been implemented with the support of Silatech Foundation (Qatar) and Economic Research Forum (Egypt). WVS wave 7 begins in the Middle East in Summer 2018.

AVAILABLE NOW: a new book by Ronald Inglehart "Cultural Evolution" HURRY to order the new book by Ronald Inglehart "Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World" published in March 2018 by Cambridge University Press!
The book presents the evolutionary modernization theory, a new interpretation of what drives political and social change. It tests the implications of this theory against survey data from over 100 countries, surveyed from 1981 to 2014. The book presents the findings in discussions based on graphs rather than using equations and statistical tables.

WVS-7 survey round: summarizing achivements and lookging for new opportunities WVSA invites expressions of interest from new survey teams, universities and research institutes in Venezuela and Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, and Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama, Cambodia and Vietnam, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan as well as in a number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

International conference "Popular Evaluation of Well-Being in the Arab World, East Asia, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America" International conference "Popular Evaluation of Well-Being in the Arab World, East Asia, South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America" took place at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE on February, 4-6, 2018. The event was organized by the Global Barometer Survey Group with the support of the Department of Sociology of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at UAEU and the World Values Survey Association.

Open lecture by Ronald Inglehart: Cultural Evolution - How People's Motivations are Changing and How this is Changing the World Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, USA, and the Founding President of the World Values Survey, Ronald Inglehart gave an open lecture at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE, on January, 31, 2018. The topic of the lecture: 'Cultural Evolution - How People's Motivations are Changing and How this is Changing the World'

Meeting with the delegation from the Northeast Normal University in China On Friday, December, 22, 2017 WVSA President and the Head of the WVSA Secretariat held a meeting and cooperation talks with the delegation from the Center for Ideological and Political Education, Northeast Normal University, China.

International Workshop “Security in the Mediterranean” An International Workshop entitled “Security in the Mediterranean” took place on November, 21-25, 2017 at the University of Almeria and was organized by the WVSA Regional Hub for Mediterranean (Southern Europe and Northern Africa). The program of the event features presentations by Seminar Directors Juan Diez-Nicolas and Pilar Rodriguez, WVSA President Christian Haerpfer as well as WVS PIs Munqith Dagher (WVS-Iraq), Fares Braizat (WVS-Jordan), Mhammed Abderebbi (WVS-Morocco), Sokratis Koniordos (WVS-Greece).

WVSA President Professor Haerpfer gives a key-note speech at the Aqdar World Summit WVSA President Professor Haerpfer gives a key-note speech devoted to the issues of moral education and global values at the Aqdar World Summit which takes place in Abu-Dhabi, UAE, on November, 21-23, 2017.

WVS Courses on Comparative Social Research at the University of Almeria The first round of teaching courses on Comparative Social Research has been conducted at the University of Almeria on October, 19-20, 2017 with the organizational support of the WVSA Regional Hub for Mediterranean.

Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union - a new book based on WVS data! Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union by Birol A. Yeşilada, Jacek Kugler, Gaspare Genna, Osman Göktuğ Tanrıkulu

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