About Us
University Sétif 2 was created via the Presidential Decree of November the 28th, 2011. The legal establishment should not hide the fact that it was born from another old university aged 35 years, which is the University of Ferhat Abbas, divided by that date, to two universities, Sétif 1 and Sétif 2. This division was imposed by several factors, including the difficulty of managing a university of over than 60,000 students, 2,000 teachers and more than 2000 employees. This division is distributed over large areas in different places in the city. It now houses two universities: the University of Sétif 1 in the west and Sétif University 2 in the east. It is therefore:
"An old honey poured into two bottles."
There is no doubt that the creation of a university of human and social sciences has very important consequences. The most important one is to give an opportunity to those sciences to develop and allow them to play their own roles in this new social reality constantly renewed on the local or global level. Indeed, it is their responsibility to contribute to the understanding of the various deep social, cultural, political and economic facts, events, and changes resulting in today's world in the various fields, to analyze it and propose the best solutions and ways to direct it, and to reduce its negative effects. In addition, these sciences have a key role in the development of a society’s new intellectual directions.
The World Social Science Report published by UNESCO and the International Social Science Council in 2010 - prepared by hundreds of social scientists from all around the world - has highlighted the need for social sciences as a means to address the major challenges facing humanity, such as: poverty, diseases and climate change.
It thus appears that we need more social and human sciences, because of the role of social and human knowledge in the construction of social and human values. These disciplines are intended first to form a balanced intellectually and culturally individual, thus allowing to establish a healthy society. However the underdeveloped countries in their legitimate desire to acquire the advanced scientific knowledge and technology have ignored the social and human sciences, human values and the construction of the individual’s use of that knowledge and technology.
Because of what happened and what is happening in a number of Arab countries such as extremism, protests, demonstrations, social and political violence, or so-called "Arab Spring" this shows how we need to pay more attention to those sciences in question in order to understand those changes, as well as the behavior and orientation of individuals, the psychology of the citizen, his claims to make the best citizenship, membership, participation, group work, social solidarity, acceptance of other, shared responsibility, a culture of tolerance, dialogue and civil solutions to differences and conflicts to achieve social maturity whose base is ‘a wise man’.
Reconsideration of the social sciences and humanities can only be achieved through the fulfillment of certain conditions. First we must devote more resources, competent researchers, relevant research, improve the means of publication, encourage linguistic diversity, multidisciplinary methods, and improve the level of trainers and their spirit of creativity, to look after talents, and educate the trainer and show his role in society.
It became necessary to occupy a "place" in the small global village as a means for the university to express its self, to better communicate inside and outside, thanks to modern technology. It is also a way for a transparent and well-governed university.
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All in all we cannot attain the objective stated without the participation and positive contribution from the entire university family, teachers, students, workers and chiefs.
Hopes are high and the challenge is greater, to promote those sciences, with competent teachers, aware students and appropriate scientific and professional atmosphere in the light of the Qur'anic revelation "Each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock."
Sétif, the city: Mohamed Lamine Debaghine Sétif 2 University shines brightly, covering a total area of 94 hectares in the Highlands region, east of Sétif city. Formerly known as "Azdif," meaning "black soil," Sétif is among the vast cities of Algeria. It is located about 300 km from the capital "Algiers," 130 km from the Mediterranean coast, and rises over 1100 meters above sea level. Today, Sétif has a population of approximately 2 million. It is a city of beauty, history, agriculture, industry, and sports. Sétif is rich and diverse with its traditions, customs, and unique local heritage.
• Sétif, an attractive city: The city's antiquity, its climate, its location, as well as the wheat fields waving in green and adorned in golden hues during summer, the white blanket that covers the city in winter, the fresh water springs gushing from every corner, its hot baths, and the generosity and hospitality of its inhabitants, all give this city a unique charm.
• Sétif in the heart of history: The Sétif region is the cradle of humanity. The oldest remains of early humans were discovered at the site named Aïn El Hanech complex near the commune of Guelta Zarka, dating back 4.2 million years. Subsequently, various civilizations succeeded in this region, from the Numidian kingdoms of the Massyles and Massaessyles, to the Roman occupation in the 1st century AD, when Emperor Nerva founded the Roman city of Sitifis between 96 and 98 for discharged soldiers. This settlement lasted for five centuries, followed by the Vandal and Byzantine invasions for three centuries, then the Islamic conquest, Ottoman presence, and finally the French colonization.
• Sétif, a bastion of resistance: French colonization reached Sétif in 1838. It quickly established military bases there, in response to the emergence of a dynamic national movement in the 1930s. Sétif then became a bastion of national resistance, especially after the massacres of May 8, 1945, which contributed to shaping the November 1954 Revolution. Sétif was a hub for various currents within the national movement: the independence movement represented by the Algerian People's Party and the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties, the reformist movement represented by the Association of Muslim Scholars, and the egalitarian currents embodied by the group of Ferhat Abbas and the Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto.
