Deputy Director for Peace-building Department, Inter-religious Council of Ethiopia Adane Dechassa Teshale is an ambassador for peace and part-time instructor in Ethiopia. He is attending the MA program in anaging peace and security in Addis Ababa University, Institute for Peace and Security Studies...

Parliamentary and Diplomatic Liaison, South African Jewish Board of Deputies Chaya Singer is the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Liaison for the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), the elected representative spokesbody and civil rights organisation of the South African Jewish community. Ch...

Christine Mikhail holds a PhD in mass communication from Ain Shams University. She is a researcher in the field of intellectual property rights and human rights, and wrote several research papers on crisis management, culture and peacebuilding. She currently works as a teacher of public relations an...

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...

In 1993 Rev. Dr. Peter Ravikumar was certified by the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Selly Oak and by Bradford University, UK, to organise programmes related to conflict resolution and peace processes as one of the team members involved in the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord. At the Ecumenical Christ...

Dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language and Head of department Shariah at the Islamic University in Uganda Dr. Walusimbi Abdul Hafiz has a PhD in Islamic law with qualifications in education, project management, Islamic banking and finance and law. His work experience started as ...

Zaid Bahr Al-Uloom is a PhD candidate in Islamic sciences at the Islamic University of Lebanon, and a researcher at the Bahr al-Uloom Institute in Najaf, Iraq.   He was born in Baghdad in 1981 and graduated from high school in Najaf in 1999. He joined Al Hawza (a religious academy) in 2001 and dur...