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Consortium for Reconciliation: Supporting the Transformation of Post-Conflict Communities
After communities have experienced violent conflict, a substantial amount of work is necessary for reconciliation to take place at the local level. Though peace agreements are made, they often fail...
Funding Opportunity: Developing Academic Partnerships and Collaborative Research on Countering Violent Extremism in Malaysia and Southeast Asia
For more information on the opportunity, have a look at: www.grants.gov.
CSW62: Faith in SDGs & Building Bridges Between Faith and Secular Actors
Parallel Event: DO YOU HAVE FAITH IN SDGs? Faith sensitive gender justice mainstreaming, towards inclusion of faith actors in CSW and SDGs International and national efforts around gender equality...
Antti Pentikäinen Assigned to Set Up Consortium for Reconciliation
Starting in autumn 2018, Antti Pentikäinen will be a “Director’s Guest” scholar at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. Mr. Pentikäinen will pursue a writing project on reconciliation, as...
Application for Rotary Peace Fellows Is Open
Applications for the 2019-20 Rotary Peace Fellowship program are now being accepted. The deadline for applicants to submit applications to their district is 31 May. For more information on the...
Religion and Politics – A Fine Line
If religion is part of the problem, it is part of the solution. This is the one-liner the Minster of Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini believes in and repeats. He said it in his speech at the...
Press Release: Religious Leaders and Actors Gather in Vienna to Discuss How to Prevent Incitement to Violence
An important step towards preventing incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes was taken on 13-15 February, when more than one hundred and fifty religious leaders and actors from...
Press Release: Bringing Plan to Action in Vienna
The Plan of Action - the first specifically designed to enable religious leaders to prevent and counter incitement to violence - was launched by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on...
A Joint Response to a Divided World
“We are seeing a divided world. We are seeing that misunderstandings between communities are on the rise and these misunderstandings are used to perpetuate violence,” director of the Washington DC...