Profile & aims / Identity and goals
The Antiracist Observatory of the University of
the Aegean (AOUA) consists of professors and researchers of the University of
the Aegean. It was established in 2012 with the aim to intervene in order to
deal with racist manifestations or practices taking place in Greece, and
focusing on the islands of the Aegean where the various departments of the
University of the Aegean are based. The past years the AOUA has placed more
emphasis on current issues related to the transition of refugees from various
countries to the EU area, whose first stop is Greece. More specifically the
AOUA has been focusing on the recent "flood" of refugees passing mainly
through the islands of the North Aegean.
The AOUA does not have a typical hierarchical
structure or an authorization and representation mechanism. It relies on a
horizontal cooperation, allowing each member to take the responsibility to
coordinate specific actions and represent the AOUA, on the basis of the
accountability of the person to the meetings of members. From this perspective,
even though the actions of its members are voluntary and selective, they do
require commitment to the basic principles and guidelines of AOUA which are
summarized in the following: a) All human beings are entitled to help in their
effort to acquire basic living conditions with dignity, and b) All human beings
have the right to be respected and equally treated, irrespective of their
cultural, religious, ethnic, social or other characteristics.
The AOUA is not financed by any kind of organization, for-profit or non-profit, local, national or international, public or private .
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