Josep Termes Chair focuses its tasks on the implementation of six programs. These programs and their topics are the following:

 

Leadership Area

Social and Political Marketing Program

• Basics on social and political marketing and communication basics
• New communicational ways: globalization, network society, ICT and cyber democracy
• Communicational strategies (institutional and non-formal ones): critical analysis and implementation (planning, development and implementation)
• Advice on the campaigns of political parties, NGO, etc.
• Historical and comparative analysis of various political and social marketing cases
• Corporate culture from a social responsibility perspective
• Leadership on social and political movements
• Communicational sociology: public opinion, lobbies and electoral processes
• Mass media: the published opinion

Political and Social Leadership Program

• New social and political leadership ways
• Leadership and commitment
• Leadership and the new ways of political and social participation
• Leadership and values
• Governability and leadership
• Characteristics of a good leadership

 

Citizenship Area

Public Diplomacy Program

• New ways of international relations
• Civil society participation in international institutions
• Citizenship, volunteerism and public diplomacy
• Globalization and new ways of international relations
• Public diplomacy and communication
• New diplomacy and the participation of civil society in the new world order
• Democracy, governance and institutions
• Democracy and civil society
• Democracy, governance and development politics
• Democracy, security and conflict resolution

Citizenship and Values Program

• New values for 21th Century
• Citizenship and Values
• Business and values
• Women and values
• Education in values
• Education for citizenship
• Citizenship, values and volunteerism
• Values and identity
• Diversity as a value

 

Identities Area

National and Identity Studies Program

• Theories about nation and nationalism
• Nationalism, cosmopolitism and populism
• Identities diversity: ethnic, national, linguistic, gender, etc.
• Migrations: historical approach and politic answers to migrations (citizenship rights, xenophobia, populism)
• Cultural public policies in a globalization framework
• Linguistic diversity and cultural public policies
• Limits and potentialities of cultural public policies based on case study

Social Movements and Conflict Resolution Program

• Democracy and multilevel governance: public sector, private sector and NGO
• Social movements: history, evolution and future challenges
• Mediation and conflict resolution
• Scopes of violence: gender, environment, media, government, identity, etc.
• Critical considerations about conflict, prevention and peace
• Case study of conflicts, micro and macro
• New political leaderships within social movements: historical evolution and challenges for the future