Piotr Tadeusz Gliński (; born 20 April 1954) is a Polish sociologist, professor, university lecturer and politician. He served as president of the

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from 2005 to 2011. He was the nominee of

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, the largest opposition party, for

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. In the

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Beata Szydło Beata Maria Szydło (, née Kusińska , 15 April 1963) is a Polish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of Law and Justice (PiS), she previously served as Prime Minister of Poland from 2015 ...

, he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the

government.

Early life and education

Piotr Tadeusz Gliński was born in

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on 20 April 1954. In 1973, he graduated from the Bolesław Prus High School in Warsaw. He studied at the Institute of Economic Sciences and the Institute of Sociology of the

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, earning a

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in 1978. He then completed doctoral studies in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...

. In 1984, on the basis of ''Labor Economic Conditions Lifestyle: Urban Families in Poland in the Seventies'', written under the direction of Andrzej Siciński, he received a Ph.D. degree in humanities. He received his

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at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in 1997 with a thesis entitled ''The Polish Greens: The Social Movement in Transition''.

Career

Professionally associated since the late 1970s with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the

, he has held various positions. From 1997 to 2005, Head of the Civil Society. He was a professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Bialystok and head of the Department of Sociology at the University. He was awarded internships outside Poland, lecturing in European universities. His academic specialty was the study of social movements,

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and

civil society Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere.environmental protection Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair dam ...

. He participated in the work of the Committee for Research and Forecasting Poland in 2000 and the Committee of Man and the Environment. He has been a consultant for national and international institutions, including the Polish ministries and the

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. In 1986, he co-organized the Section of Social Forecasting of the

. From 1995 to 1997 he was treasurer of the PSA, Vice-President of the organization, and from 2005 to 2011 he served as its President. In 1989 he became a member of the Social Ecological Institute, which he headed from 1997 to 2003. He was a founding member of the Society for the creation of the Mazury National Park. He is also a member of the

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. In 2003, he participated in the creation of the party

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, but due to its adoption of a leftist agenda, ultimately did not join. In 2008 Gliński received the title of professor of humanities.

Political activities

On 1 October 2012,

announced Gliński as candidate for

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with a request for a

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against the government of

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. On 16 June 2014, Law and Justice filed a repeat request, again naming Gliński as a candidate for the office. Since 16 November 2015, he has been

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and Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the Cabinet of Beata Szydło. He was appointed by

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as the Chairman of the Public Benefit Committee in 2017.

Polish-Jewish Relations

In his keynote address on 29 November 2017 at the Third Polish-Israeli Foreign Policy Conference, convened in Warsaw by the Polish Institute for International Affairs and the

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, Glinski declared Piotr Glinski: " Polish–Israeli Relations:Challenges and Opportunities, " The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs XI:3 (2017). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2017.1443999 : "An important part of Polish heritage is the awareness of the common past of many generations of Polish and Jewish people living on this land, and, of course, here in Warsaw as well. That world was destroyed by the Nazi German criminals during World War II, but it was reborn in the form of Polish–Israeli friendship and cooperation…. We died together then and it is our collective responsibility today to remind the world of this. I emphasize that the Polish state is making great efforts to fulfil this obligation… I say with great conviction that this memory is deeply rooted in the meaning of the nation as a cultural and historical community, not only an ethnic one—a meaning shared by the government of the Republic of Poland, which I represent. We rely on an understanding of national community that includes—not excludes—its members. Polish Jews have built, are building, and—I truly hope and am deeply convinced—will continue to build this community."

Awards

In 2011, President

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awarded him the Officer's Cross of the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on foreigners for outstanding achievemen ...

Family

Piotr Gliński is the younger brother of film director

Robert Gliński Robert Ignacy Gliński (born 17 April 1952 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He won the Golden Lions at the Gdynia Film Festival in 1992 with his film '' Wszystko, co najw ...

Select publications

* ''Civil society in the making'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2006 * ''Człowiek-środowisko-zdrowie. Problemy polskie z prognostycznego punktu widzenia'' (red.), KPPRK PAN, Warszawa 1985 * ''Katastrofa smoleńska, Reakcje społeczne, polityczne i medialne'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2011 * ''Kulturowe aspekty struktury społecznej. Fundamenty, konstrukcje, fasady'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2010 * ''Polscy Zieloni. Ruch społeczny w okresie przemian'', IFiS PAN, Warszawa 1996 * ''Samoorganizacja społeczeństwa polskiego. III sektor i wspólnoty lokalne w jednoczącej się Europie'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2002 * ''Socjologia i Siciński. Style życia, społeczeństwo obywatelskie, studia nad przyszłością'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2009 * ''Społeczne aspekty ochrony i kształtowania środowiska w Polsce'', Wyd. SGGW-AR, Warszawa 1990 * ''Style działań organizacji pozarządowych w Polsce. Grupy interesu czy pożytku publicznego?'', IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2006 * ''Teorie wspólnotowe a praktyka społeczna. Obywatelskość, polityka, lokalność'' (red.), IFiS PAN, Warszawa 2005

References

External links

*
Curriculum vitae
on the website of the

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