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...

Religion Journalist and President of the NGO “Forum on Media, Religion and Culture of Remembrance” Jelena is a religion journalist and president of the NGO “Forum on Media, Religion and Culture of Remembrance.” She holds a bachelor’s degree in political sciences and a master’s d...

Jessica Sitek is guided by the axiom: life is relationships. Barriers exist that obstruct our ability to be in relationship. Our biases, prejudgments, misunderstandings and lack of knowledge can impair our ability to connect with others. As a result, Ms. Sitek sees the principles of dialogue as a ne...

Jessica has pursued academic studies is in two fields: The first is in branding, graphic design and art direction. The second is in theology and spiritual direction. While working closely with faith-based organizations, Jessica has volunteered for many years in several missionary groups to develop ...

Rev Jose Nandhikkara CMI, a Carmelite Priest, is the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Christ University, Bangalore. He also serves as Director of the Centre for the Study of World Religions and Chief Editor of the Journal of Dh...

Projects and International Engagement Manager. Glorious Cross Ministries Joseph graduated magna cum laude with his licentiate in sacred theology from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya. He has published several books in many languages including Italian, Portuguese, French, English, Ru...

Senior Lecturer, Makerere University Dr. Bweyale Josephine is a senior lecturer at Makerere University, Kampala-Uganda. Josephine specializes in training of secondary school teachers in the subject of religion. Having grown up in an African patriarchal context where women are considered jural minor...

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...

Kathy is Program Manager of Phandeeyar Innovation Hub’s Tech for Peace Program. In 2019, she received a full scholarship from Open Society Foundation and is studying MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development studies at SOAS, University of London. She started her career as a lawyer and programme of...

Kaush Weerakoon is a community peacebuilder in Sri Lanka and is currently employed at the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka as a Senior Project Officer. She has contributed to establishing Communal Conflict Mitigatory Mechanisms in identified local level hotspots of religious tensions and has been...