Professor, University College Beder Skender graduated from Boğaziçi University with a major in psychology. His master’s focused on the role and influence that ethnocentrism has on people’s behaviour. He completed his doctoral studies at the European University of Tirana with a focus on qu...

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...

Conflict Analyst, WFP Sri Lanka Durga has a master’s degree in international development and environmental analysis from Monash University, Australia, and currently provides technical support for WFP Sri Lanka on conducting conflict analysis. Until recently, she worked as the Assistant Director o...

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...

Executive Secretary and Public Affaires Religious Liberty, Eastern Sahel Union Mission Emmanuel Kra is a pastor for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and director of public affairs and religious freedom at the Eastern Sahel Union Mission, which is headquartered in Togo and covers Benin, Burkina Faso...

Fadel Salim is Head of the Department of Educational and Religious Affairs in the Druze Council in Lebanon. He is also active in the field of human rights, common citizenship, and interreligious dialogue. He is the author of several publications and has carried out extensive research in the field of...

Father Khaled completed his studies of philosophy and theology from the Latin Seminary of the University of Pontifical Latiran Rome in Jerusalem. He is currently a priest of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and an assistant priest at church in Zarka North, Jordan. He is also a deputy spiritual l...

Father Nehme Saliba is a clergyman of the Orthodox Church in Lebanon. He is also a trainer and activist in Islamic-Christian relations and dialogue, a field in which he held several positions in different non-governmental organizations. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies on “civil marriage ...

Father Rony Bou Gharios, a priest since 2005, has been appointed as parishioner in a number of parishes in Lebanon and abroad. He holds a graduate canonical degree and a master’s degree in theology from the Catholic University of Angers, France, and a B.A in theology from the Pontifical Faculty of...

Fr. Shakeel John is a priest from the Catholic Diocese of Multan, Pakistan. At present he is working as a missionary priest in the Mission of the Order of Discalced Augustinians, Cebu, Philippines. For the last 6 years he was rendering his services as Dean of the Philosophy Department at Tabor Hill ...