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Participants at a peace conference, hosted in Nigeria by the KAICIID-supported Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace (IDFP), called for better engagement between religious leaders and policymakers, education reforms and improvements to security structures in order to prevent future acts of violence.…
From February 16-17th, eight members of the KAICIID-supported Muslim-Jewish Leadership Council (MJLC) gathered in Vienna to discuss the protection of religious freedom in Europe and how to promote greater understanding and respect for religious minorities.
During the course of the meeting, KAICIID…
The Board of Directors of the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID), comprising senior representatives of the world’s major religions, met this week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for its 22nd regular session to discuss strategy for 2020 and beyond.
During the visit, Board members, led by Faisal bin…
Cirilo Boloron and Elisabeth Palugyay met in 2019 through KAICIID’s International Fellows Programme, quickly bonding over their shared desire to support Vienna's influx of refugees and migrants. As part of the one-year training programme, KAICIID provides Fellows with small grants to implement…
Atallah Fitzgibbon is the Faith Partnership Advisor at Islamic Relief Worldwide - an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1984. The organization works closely with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the United Nations World Food Programme to provide humanitarian…
The International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) and the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which aims to contribute to peace and the advancement of the 2030 Agenda through knowledge dissemination.
The MoU signing ceremony took place on the sidelines…
When Taras Dzyubanskyy founded the Libertas Centre for Interconfessional and Interreligious Dialogue in Lviv in May 2013, Ukraine was at relative peace. Less than a year later, violent protests had toppled the government as a result of Russian claims to the Crimean Peninsula.
“Originally, I just…
At 22, disenchanted with life in the United States and seeking to reconnect with her Indian roots, Nandini Tripathi embarked on a spiritual journey to picturesque Rishikesh where the Ganges River (Ganga) emerges pristine from the Himalayan Mountains.
Her visit to this world-famous yoga haven was…
Nestled among Myanmar’s vibrant and diverse religious communities, Ashin Mandalarlankara grew up in a Theravada Buddhist bubble. That bubble burst in 2010 when an Irish Catholic nun came to his monastery in Mandalay to teach English.
“She invited me to her church, where I met Christian…
Tim Fawssett grew up in Far North Queensland, Australia, in the remote aboriginal community of Doomadgee. His parents were Christian missionaries there -- his mother a nurse and his father the local school principal.
“I was a white boy in a fairly large aboriginal community, but I never felt…
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