Conflict and Peace

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Finding a Civil Civic Community

February 8, 2024
Professor Terrence Johnson will join faith leaders participating in “Dialogue in Good Faith,” a panel discussion to be held at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in New Jersey later this month.
Ailih Weeldreyer, MTS '24, at the United States Institute of Peace / Courtesy image

Summer Internship Furthers International Peacebuilding Efforts

August 28, 2023

"Conflicts are driven by a number of complicated factors, but are often mislabeled as religious. This experience showed me that religious literacy is necessary in peacebuilding to appropriately address the ambivalent and complex religious dimensions of conflict, and how best to channel the power of religious peacebuilders in the creation of just and peaceful societies."—Ailih Weeldreyer, MTS candidate

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US Official Calls Religious Intolerance in India 'Frightening'

July 18, 2023

"U.S. advocacy for religious freedom must be conflict-sensitive, so as not to render already vulnerable communities more vulnerable nor exacerbate religious dimensions of conflict," Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, said while testifying before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

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Refugees and Islamophobia in Western Europe: The Boomerang Effect

March 27, 2023
"Even when religious life in the country of origin stops because of exile and displacement, the influence of religion persists not only through family life, culture, and transnational forms of communication, but it is also changed by the cultural and political contexts of resettlement," writes Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding.
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The Alarming Intensification and Globalization of Islamophobia

March 15, 2023
"In the last decade, the surge of Islamophobia has become worldwide, reaching India, China and even Muslim countries. This geographic expansion goes hand-in-hand with an expansion and intensification of the discrimination not only of Muslims but also of Islam, both of which are seen as an existential threat," writes T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding Jocelyne Cesari.
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What the Epiphany Teaches Us About Political Hatred

January 6, 2023
"What’s indisputable is that, in the ancient story, the holy is made manifest in openness to others. Hospitality is how epiphany happens. Hostility to ethnic and religious outsiders, meanwhile, leads to the massacre of one’s innocent own," writes Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.
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Religious Literacy in International Affairs

November 16, 2022
Susan Hayward, associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative at HDS, leads a conversation on religious literacy in international affairs for the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Gift Given, One Left Behind

October 3, 2022
In a lecture at Harvard Divinity School, Holocaust historian Gerald J. Steinacher, James A. Rawley Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and author of Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice, shared the latest findings from his research in the Vatican archives, which Pope Francis opened in March 2020.

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