While the corona-virus pandemic led us to postpone our in-person conference to 2021, Western Asian Development Institute decided to shift this year’s event to an online format. We felt it was important to provide our participants a platform to gather during an otherwise isolating time, both professionally and personally. As a result of this change, we were also able to welcome many young scholars from different countries.

International Online Conference of Young Scientists “Science for Peace and Development” (IOCYS 2020), this one day event consisted of over 15 concurrent panel sessions and activities with over 450 participants attending for the event, coming from 35 different countries.

International Online Conference of Young Scientists “Science for Peace and Development” (IOCYS 2020) was a brilliant opportunity for young scholars from all around the world to share ideas on science for peace and development in the wake of pandemic. The event focused on a variety of crucial issues of science for peace and development under conditions of global lock-down. The main goal of the conference was to provide an interdisciplinary outlook on the above-mentioned theme and to invoke discussion of them that is a major value of the young scholarly research. This international online conference was, therefore, became a platform for young academics and practitioners from all around the world to represent their research.