Dr. Abed Alfattah Al Samman is an international expert in religious media and dialogue of civilizations; a trainer for religious leaders on communications skills; an international observer in the United States for educational diversity; a human development trainer; and a specialist in behavioral mod...

Dr. Amanah Nurish is an Indonesian ethnographer and anthropologist. She is a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Dept. of Anthropology – Stanford University. She teaches at the School of Strategic and Global Studies, University of Indonesia. Before working in academic field, she worked as a regional...

Venerable Varabuddhi is a Buddhist monk from Myanmar. He is studying for his Master of Philosophy at the Postgraduate Institute of Buddhist and Pali Studies at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University in Chiangmai, Thail...

Born in Yangon, Dr. Aung Than Oo graduated from the University of Medicine in Yangon, Myanmar. His specialty is public/community health, and his profession is treating poor and vulnerable people and providing medical and psychological support. He also obtained a Certified Public Management Analysis ...

Lecturer, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad; Vice Chair Person, IDRAC Dr. Souaad Muhammad Abbas earned her doctorate in Islamic Studies in 2018 from the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. She believes in hard work and finds is interested in various acade...

Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Ursuline College Yehuda is the Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Ursuline College and he collaborates with the Office of Diversity to foster inclusion on campus. He is currently developing a course on Intrapersonal Peace and Conflict Prevention, which w...

Senior Lecturer of Theology and Co-director of the Inter-religious Dialogue Network, Australian Catholic University Edmund is a scholar of Asian Christianity and interreligious dialogue. He began his career as a De La Salle Brother and high-school teacher in Malaysia. He then headed the interreligi...

Dr. Elizabeth (Liza) Lynn Anderson is an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN, where she teaches church history, ascetical theology and interreligious dialogue. She graduated from Swarthmore College with the highest honors in 2005 with...

Andrew (A.J.) Boyd is a Catholic minister and theologian specializing in ecumenism and interreligious dialogue who has taught in Rome for Pontifical, American, and British university and seminary programs, in theology, religious studies, and history. He currently serves as the Senior Programme Manag...

Since 2004, Hani has been the Programme Manager of “Taawon for Conflict Resolution” in Palestine. He has years of experience in vocational capacity building and employability programs as well as training in working with conflict. He holds a master’s degree in American studies from Palestine Un...