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This conference examines how and why members of religious traditions are moved, precisely because of those traditions, to work for justice and reconciliation between peoples who are otherwise divided.
Presenters share personal responses to religion's imperative work toward the resolution of violent conflict.
Speakers include:
- Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Ph.D. (pictured), President, Jewish Life Network, New York, NY
- Yasser Aman, President/CEO, University Muslim Medical Association (UMMA) Free Clinic, Los Angeles, CA
- R. Scott Appleby, Ph.D., Professor of History, John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
- Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman, Executive Director, Rabbis for Human Rights, Israel
- His Eminence Dr. Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of Bosnia Herzegovina
- Melodye Feldman, M.S.W.,Founding Executive Director, Seeking Common Ground, Denver, CO
- Stephanie Fingeroth, Associate Director of Education and Outreach, American Jewish World Service, New York, NY
- Rabbi Reuven Firestone, Ph.D.,Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, CA
- Sr. Filo Shizue Hirota, M.M.B., Board member, Catholic Council for Justice and Peace of the Episcopal Conference, Japan
- Samah Jabr, M.D., Bethlehem Psychiatric Hospital, Palestinian Authority
- Fr. Michael Kennedy, Dolores Mission Los Angeles
- Fr. Michael Lapsley, S.S.M., Director, Institute for Healing of Memories, South Africa
- Prof. Mohamed Fathi Osman, Ph.D., Scholar in Residence, Institute for the Study of the Role of Islam in the Contemporary World, Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
- Naim Shah, Jr., C.P.A., Co-Founder, ILM Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, and
- Prof. Charles M. Taylor, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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