Dr. Abbas Panakkal is the director of International Interfaith Harmony Initiative, which has been organising the International Interfaith Conferences in collaboration with United Nations initiatives, the Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department for Unity and Integration and the International Islamic...

Dr. Adriana Bara teaches Theology at Concordia University and in her courses, she promotes a sincere interreligious dialogue without over-simplification or compromise, which does not require religious neutrality or the watering down of the dialogue partners’ faith. On the contrary, she holds that...

A.M. Mihlar is a doctoral candidate at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He holds a Masters in Arts and received an M.Phil. with a gold medal in Comparative Religion from the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, where he also teaches Comparative Religion. He also taught at t...

The Venerable Varasami has been working in development and social change with people from different religious backgrounds in the Mandalay area in Myanmar since 2010. His interest in dialogue with people from different religions stems from an encounter with his English teacher, a Catholic teacher fro...

Elyse Brazel’s work focuses on increasing interreligious literacy of university students and staff to help shape a more religion-positive, pluralistic campus. Her undergraduate studies were in fine arts: figurative painting and sculpture. Her graduate work was in public and pastoral leadershi...

Dr. Fransiska Widyawati is a lecturer and the director of Research and Community Development at Saint Paul Teacher Training College, in Ruteng-Flores, eastern Indonesia. She was awarded her PhD in interreligious studies from the Indonesian Consortium for Interreligious Studies at Gadjah Mada Univer...

Sayyid Hayder Bahraluloom was born on the 2nd of April 1986 in the holy city of al-Najaf al-Ashraf, Iraq. He is the Director of Alnajaf Center for Culture and Research and he also serves as the Director of the dialogue chair at the Bahr Al-Uloom Charity Foundation. He holds a B.S. in Medical Laborat...

Jennifer Sue Lindsay earned her Master of Divinity with an emphasis in interfaith relations at Union Theological Seminary in New York City where she was also co-chair of the Interfaith Caucus. In her doctoral research, which has received awards from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion ...

Rev Jose Nandhikkara CMI, a Carmelite Priest, is the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Christ University, Bangalore. He also serves as Director of the Centre for the Study of World Religions and Chief Editor of the Journal of Dh...