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January 5, 2012
Women's Religious Peacebuilding Symposium
By invitation only. Please contact Claudia Zambra at claudia.zambra@wfdd.us with any questions.
The Berkley Center, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and the World Faiths Development Dialogue hosted a second symposium on women's religious peacemaking at USIP headquarters in Washington DC. A small group of academics and practitioners came together to discuss submissions for a call for papers issued in February 2011, which will be published in 2012. These papers address some of the pertinent themes that emerged from discussions in the first symposium in July 2010 that warrant further investigation. Some authors draw from their own on-the-ground experience in conflict zones, while other papers from research-oriented practitioners address common themes across countries or regions and with respect to different faith traditions.
The Berkley Center, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and the World Faiths Development Dialogue hosted a second symposium on women's religious peacemaking at USIP headquarters in Washington DC. A small group of academics and practitioners came together to discuss submissions for a call for papers issued in February 2011, which will be published in 2012. These papers address some of the pertinent themes that emerged from discussions in the first symposium in July 2010 that warrant further investigation. Some authors draw from their own on-the-ground experience in conflict zones, while other papers from research-oriented practitioners address common themes across countries or regions and with respect to different faith traditions.
The symposium sought to address pertinent themes and possible recommendations to policy makers and peacemakers on issues of local peacebuilding, drawing from the first phase of the project and new inputs contained in the papers.
Participants
Etin Anwar
Etin Anwar is committed to understanding the role of women in society and within Islamic philosophy and theology. While grounded within the traditions of Islamic thought, Anwar asks tough questions about the role of feminism, the interpretation of...
Andrea Blanch
Andrea Blanch, PhD, is President of the Center for Religious Tolerance, a non-profit organization promoting the ideals of peace and religious tolerance. She is also a founding member of the Abrahamic Reunion, a group of Jewish, Christian, Muslim,...
Anjana Dayal de Prewitt
Anjana Dayal de Prewitt is a humanitarian psychologist whose worldview is based on a multi-cultural family background that includes Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians. Her theology is based on the Christian question of “who is thy neighbor”,...
Susan Hayward
At the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) since 2007, Susan Hayward is a program officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Center of Innovation focused on the development of conflict prevention, resolution, and reconciliation programs that...
Margaret Jenkins
Margaret Jenkins has a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto (2010) and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University from 2004-05. She has also worked at the UN Development Fund for Women and the Canadian International Development...
Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana
Dr. S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana is a founding member and the Associate Director of Salam Institute for Peace and Justice. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution at the School of International...
Kathleen Kuehnast
Kathleen Kuehnast is a socio-cultural anthropologist and director of the Gender and Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace, which she joined in 2008 as Associate Vice President of the Grant Program following a 15-year career...
Maryann Cusimano Love
Maryann Cusimano Love is an Associate Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America and an expert on international security and peacebuilding. She is on the Advisory Board of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, and serves on the Core...
Monica Maher
Monica Maher researches and teaches at the intersection of the fields of Ecumenical Studies and Social Ethics, including interreligious perspectives on gender, sexuality, and human rights, and the relationship between spirituality and ethics. Dr....
Dena Merriam
Dena Merriam is Vice Chairman and partner in public relations firm Ruder Finn, Inc., and the founder and convener of the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW). Her work at GPIW aims to create a global platform for women religious and spiritual...
Jacqueline Moturi Ogega
Jacqueline Moturi Ogega is the director of the Women’s Program at the World Conference of Religions for Peace. Ogega has extensive experience in gender, peace-building and development programming. She has worked to mobilize financial and human...
Manal Omar
Manal Omar serves as Director of Iraq, Iran, and North Africa Programs at the United States Institute of Peace's Center for Post-conflict Peace and Stability Operations, which she joined in 2008. She previously worked with Oxfam - Great Britain as...
Mary Hope Schwoebel
Mary Hope Schwoebel is a senior program officer in the Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. For the past ten years Mary Hope has worked as a consultant for international organizations. Prior to that she lived and worked...
Zilka Spahic-Siljak
Zilka Spahic-Siljak was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she lives and works as a deputy director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo and teaches Gender and Religious studies. She is a...
Susan Thistlethwaite
Reverend Susan Thistlethwaite is Professor of Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary and its former president from 1998 to 2008. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Thistlethwaite's current research and writing focuses on public theology....
Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf
Bilkisu Yusuf is a journalist by profession and a political scientist by training. She received a BS in political science from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and a MA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin. She studied journalism at...