Project officer, Swedish government agency for support to faith communities Jana Jakob is a project officer at the Swedish government agency for support to faith communities, where she is mainly responsible for the agency’s educational and capacity building work, as well as special government ass...

Teacher, Organiser, Student, Arsha Vijnana Gurukulam Janani Chaitanya, whose spiritual name is Jananisri, has studied Vedanta since 2007. She has completed a three and a half year intensive Vedanta and Sanskrit course in India with Pujya Swamiji Dayananda, the foremost scholar of Sanskrit and Vedan...

Jannatul Maoa is a writer and an interfaith dialogue activist. She has 11 years of experience in working and dealing with people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. As a student of the Department of World Religions and Culture, Jannatul participated and voluntarily facilitated several i...

Katende Abdul-Fattah from Uganda has been a lecturer in the Department of Religion and Peace Studies at Makerere University for the last 28 years. He offers lectures in the areas of Islamic Theology, Peace Studies and Inter-religious Dialogue. He is also the Coordinator of the Centre for Inter-cultu...

Masters in Gandhi and Peace Studies Kenu Agarwal a social and spiritual leader, has been working on various Peace, Harmony, and women’s Empowerment issues for more than 15 years. A profound believer in Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural harmony, she has been working for Peace and Religious h...

Datu Mussolini Sinsuat Lidasan is the founder and currently the Executive Director of the Al Qalam Institute of Islamic Identities and Dialogue in Southeast Asia at Ateneo de Davao University; and a facilitator in intra-faith and interfaith dialogue (worked as a United Nations Volunteer – Com...

Natalie Samir Akkari holds a BA in English from the Department of Translation at Al-Baath University in Syria.  She is a director of a private kindergarten and is active in Christian religious education for children and women (Sunday school). She studied Byzantine ecclesiastical music and is a mem...

Head of Islamic Studies Department, Princess Noura Bent Abdurrahman University, Riyadh – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Nourah Alhasawi holds a PhD in Islamic Studies and specializes in Sunnah, the Prophet Mohammed`s biography, teachings and their documentation. She is an Associate Professor and the Hea...

Raghad Mohammed Jabar is a social activist and has a diploma from the Technical Institute of Al Basra in Iraq and several certificates from different organizations including the United Nations, UNICEF and the International Peace Institute. As the president of Al-Weyam Organization for Human Rights,...

Saydo Khairi Ahmed was born in Sinjar, Nineveh province, Iraq. He hase been working as a high-school teacher for the past 8 years. In addition, he works for the organization Yazda as a deputy manager for the Iraq programme and coordinator in the educational and religious programmes. Saydo is an...