Professor Kota Suechika presented at an international conference held at National Chengchi University in Taipei

On November 1-2, 2025, ISIC 2025: The Eighth International Conference on Islamic Civilisation “Sects, Sectarianism, and Sectarian Identities in Islam,” was held at National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei. Together with Professor Dai Yamao of Kyushu University, Professor Kota Suechika (RARA Fellow) presented a research paper titled “Do Sectarian Differences Affect Support for Armed Non-State Actors?: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen.”

The international academic conference was co-hosted by the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at NCCU, Taiwan, and the Institut Islam Hadhari at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. The conference comprehensively examined how sects and sectarian identities have been formed, developed, and diversified across historical, ideological, literary, political, and social dimensions, addressing the current tendency to oversimplify sectarian conflicts in the Islamic world.

Please see the page below for more details on the ISIC 2025.
Department of Arabic Language and Culture, NCCU Website