As part of its counter-radicalization advocacy campaign for the promotion of secular governance and democratic values, the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in partnership with Heinrich Böll Stiung organized a Dialogue Forum series titled “Governance, Community and Religion” (GOCORE). is was a sequel to the series titled “State, Religion and Democracy”, launched in 2013, which was a similar advocacy campaign aimed at de-radicalization and promotion of secular governance through a series of discussions involving Muslim scholars from Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia.
GOCORE, besides the Muslim scholars from Islamic countries such as Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh, involved progressive Muslim scholars from multicultural societies in the Americas, Europe and Australia. The series of discussions were held at different universities across Pakistan, as well as with civil society groups, to underscore the need for democratizing the state conduct and politics rather than looking at them through the religious prism; and also to underpin the need for the separation of religion and politics into secular governance; and how the public and the private sectors are dealing with the attendant challenges in various countries.