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Darja Bavdaž Kuret
Darja Bavdaž Kuret (born 1956) is a Slovenian diplomat, social scientist and women's rights advocate. Following several ambassadorial posts since 1995, she was appointed Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations in August 2017. Bavdaž Kuret is a keen supporter of equal rights for women. As of September 2023, Bavdaž Kuret is serving as Slovenia's Ambassador to Russia. Born in Slovenia in 1956, Darja Bavdaž Kuret graduated with a degree in political science and international relations from the University of Ljubljana. From 1995 to 1999, she was appointed Ambassador to Israel, including accreditation for the Palestinian Authority. She then headed the Department for Analysis and Planning at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs before serving as Ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia (2002–2006). From 2006 to 2008, she was Secretary-General of the Bled Strategic Forum organized by the Slovenian Foreign Ministry and the Centre for European Perspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Scientist
Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of society", established in the 18th century. It now encompasses a wide array of additional academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, history, linguistics, management, communication studies, psychology, culturology, and political science. The majority of positivist social scientists use methods resembling those used in the natural sciences as tools for understanding societies, and so define science in its stricter modern sense. Speculative social scientists, otherwise known as interpretivist scientists, by contrast, may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
