"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.
Through a photo documentation project in the complex area of the South Hebron Hills in Area C of the West Bank, two Harvard Divinity School fellows uncovered layered Jewish identities of activists in solidarity with Palestinians, including within themselves.
Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz and Rutgers University associate professor Noura Erakat discussed power and decolonization in Palestine and Israel in a virtual conversation hosted by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at HDS.
Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, discusses her recent book, "We God's People: the Politics of Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations," which is based on five years of work with a unique international research team that has produced new data to anticipate religious conflicts in Syria, Turkey, China, India, and Russia.
In the deadliest incident of anti-Semitic violence in U.S. history, 46 year-old Robert Bowers allegedly shot dead 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh during morning Shabbat services on Saturday, October 27. During a gunfight with police, Bowers reportedly declared that he wanted “to kill Jews.”... Read more about Tree of Life Massacre Has Roots in Religious Hatred
