KAICIID Fellows

Suhadi Cholil

Dr. Suhadi is a lecturer at the graduate school of the State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In addition, he is teaching at the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University. He is also a board member of higher Islamic ed...

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Swe Mar Oo

Founder and Director of Generation Tree, Myanmar As a representative of a minority community in Myanmar, Swe Mar Oo was exposed early on to people from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds. Today, she is the Founder and Director of Generation Tree, a Yangon-based NGO which promotes diversity a...

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Syed Asad Abbas Rizvi

Assistant Professor, Department of Education, International Islamic University, Islamabad Dr. Asad Rizvi an assistant professor in the Department of Education of the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIU). He is an active researcher and research coordinator for research degree programs a...

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Tahmeed Jan

Executive Director, International Research Council for Religious Affairs, Pakistan Tahmeed Jan serves as Executive Director of the International Research Council for Religious Affairs, a leading think-tank in Pakistan that aims to have no boundaries in research and development through religious eng...

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Taras Dzyubanskyy

Taras Dzyubanskyy PhD, Theologian, Lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Religious Issues Adviser to the Mayor of Lviv, Ukraine Dr. Taras Dzyubanskyy holds a B.A. in Philosophy and studied at various papal institutes in the Vatican. In 2010, he received a prestigious Russell Berrie Fellows...

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The Venerable Sangharakkhita

The Venerable Sangharakkhita Olivier Biraro was born in Rwanda in 1981. At age 17, he started practicing Buddhism and later became the first and the only Buddhist Monk in the Theravada Tradition from Rwanda. He is an inspirational speaker on subjects of inner peace, forgiveness, reconciliation and t...

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Thomas Maximos Pafilis

His Grace Bishop Maximos of Melitini was born in Karditsa, Greece in 1978. He studied English literature at the University of Michigan; history at Deree College, the American College of Greece; theology in Thessalonica and Athens, Greece. He received his master’s degree in and communications at th...

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