Piotr Balcerowicz

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Piotr Balcerowicz is a Polish orientalist and philosopher who serves as a professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw. He founded the Association Education for Peace. In 1980 he helped organize the Federation of the Councils of Secondary Schools of Torun to oppose indoctrination in schools and to promote self-education. He graduated in Oriental Philology from the University of Warsaw in 1990 and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg in 1999 after studying there from 1992 to 1996. He is a former member of the Science Committee of Orientalists at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He teaches in the Department of International Relations at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw and is a professor in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw. Since 2002, he has been the founder and CEO of the Association Education for Peace.