Victoria Pelaez has been a social researcher on gender, migration, and social inclusion for more than 10 years. She teaches social research at Rafael Landívar University (a Jesuit university) in Guatemala. A Roman Catholic, her academic interests focus on how excluded populations can be involved in...

Professor of Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue at the Pontifical Beda College, Rome A. J. Boyd is professor of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome, and assistant professor of theology and religious studies for various university programs in Rome, inclu...

Founding director of Faiths In Tune Anja Fahlenkamp has a bachelor’s in politics and a master’s in international relations and is a political scientist and social entrepreneur, and the founding director of Faiths In Tune, a non-profit initiative in the context of which she has been organising a...

Associate Officer on Freedom of Religion or Belief, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Arijana was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated from the Department of Comparative Literature and Library Science at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University o...

Pastor, Reverend, El Salvador Lutheran Synod Arisbé Abelina Gómez became a Lutheran pastor in El Salvador in August 2019 after extensive experience as a leader of young people in the church. She also has expertise with children’s biblical education. From 2004 until 2009, she was director of th...

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...

Lecturer, Artha Wacana Christian University Rince Felpina Manao was born in Soe, West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. She graduated from Artha Wacana Christian University, at Kupang with a degree in theology in 2015. She started her career at the Association of Indonesian Christian Scholars f...

Leader of the multi-religious “Samanwaya Giri” (Hill of Integration) The Venerable Swami Athmadas Yami Dharmapaksha identifies himself as a liberal Hindu, with an immense interest in other religions and cultures. Born to parents of interreligious backgrounds (a Christian father and Hindu mother...

Youth activist, civic educator Aung Htay Myint is a youth activist from Myanmar. In December 2014, he co-founded the Siblings organization where he serves as a vice-chairman with the purpose of educating the poor and orphans. He is a civic educator at the Institute for Political and Civic Engagemen...