UN Offices Decry Rising Antisemitism and Islamophobia around the World
UN experts issued a statement stating that urgent action must be taken by all to ensure members of religious minority communities are able to enjoy their rights on an equal basis and receive effective protection.

(United Nations Alliance of Civilizations)

Religious Actors and Peacebuilding in Ukraine
This event will discuss the key findings of the October 2023 report "Mapping the Religious Landscape of Ukraine." The report’s authors and other experts on religion in Ukraine will offer important insights on the latest developments at the intersection of religion, politics, and security in Ukraine today.

United States Institute of Peace
January 18, 2024 | Online

Global Refugee Forum 2023
Held every four years, the forum is designed to support the practical implementation of the objectives set out in the Global Compact on Refugees: Ease pressures on host countries, enhance refugee self-reliance, increase access to third-country solutions, and improve conditions in countries of origin. 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
December 13-15, 2023 | Geneva, Switzerland; Online

Women Speak Out: Confronting War, Rape, and the Rise in Hate: An Interfaith Conversation
This conversation discussed the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel and the war with Hamas, the reaction from progressive organizations, women’s rights groups, and their own communities, as well as how the speakers' personal backgrounds inform their interfaith work and why they feel obligated to speak out against antisemitism.

Moment Magazine; The WNET Group
December 13, 2023 | Online

G20 Interfaith Forum Year End Document

This report captures the work of the G20 Interfaith Forum throughout 2023 across three overarching concerns: addressing international financial architecture, advocating for the inclusion of the African Union in G20, and proposing an international commission to address racism. The document also contains summaries of major events and webinars from the year.

(G20 Interfaith Forum)

Finding Golden Threads of Commonality: An Interfaith Dialogue Sharing Experiences During Troubled Times

This collaborative autoethnography provides insights and brings together the voices and musings of three scholars and educators whose foundational religious beliefs are grounded in different faiths: Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. The authors reflect on ways their beliefs informed their ways of navigating several global crises, specifically, COVID-19 and racial strife in the United States. 

(The Journal of Faith, Education, and Community)

Rethinking Interreligious Dialogue: Orality, Collective Memory, and Christian-Muslim Engagements in Indonesia (Book Review)

This article offers a review of Rethinking Interreligious Dialogue: Orality, Collective Memory, and Christian-Muslim Engagements in Indonesia (2023) by Izak Y. M. Lattu. Based on the author's extensive ethnographic fieldwork from 2013 to 2022, the book analyzes the centuries-old indigenous practices of constructive interreligious engagements between Malukan Christians and Muslims grounded in pela-gandong.

(International Journal of Asian Studies)

Joy in the Interfaith Encounter

This chapter focuses on the Jewish relationship with the Catholic Church in the context of two statements from Orthodox Jewish leaders: To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven, issued in 2015 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Nostra Aetate, and Between Jerusalem and Rome, issued two years later, indicate that dialogue can only take place when boundaries which distinguish Jews and Christians are respected, and when both dialogue partners are committed to upholding the dignity of one another. These two statements allow for the possibility that interfaith dialogue need not only be embraced because such dialogue helps to prevent hatred against Jews.

(An Ode to Joy: Judaism and Happiness in the Thought of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and Beyond)

Event Video: Refugees and Forced Displacement

This webinar explored how various religious traditions are navigating the global refugee crisis and charting a way forward despite often deep differences in how to respond to displaced persons, the kind of engaged dialogue across difference Pope Francis calls a culture of encounter. Attention was focused on the practical and policy challenges to refugee integration in host societies and how religious groups can catalyze the institutionalization of improved policies and practices by government agencies. This event was part of the Culture of Encounter Project's international, interfaith working group on displaced persons and was convened by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.

Event Video: Is Our Conscience Revolted?

This webinar reflected on the current crisis unfolding in Israel and Gaza, in which children were deliberately attacked, killed, and taken hostage by Hamas. Thousands of children have also been killed and injured in retaliatory strikes in Gaza and continue to die each day. The conflict has accentuated deep divides and polarization. How might the conversation about the conflict change when we center children and our commitments to them? This event was part of the Culture of Encounter Project's international, interfaith working group on child rights and was convened by the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues and Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.