Peace and Interfaith Education
The oxford Interfaith Forum organised eight events in honour of the WIHW.
The third event was a grand-scale celebration of the World Interfaith Harmony Week in Oxford, in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum.
The programme consisted of two parts.
The first part was a musical performance in the Ashmolean Museum titled Interfaith Harmony: Singing Together, Across Languages and Times. It was led by Professor Henrike Lähnemann with St Edmund Consort, a part of the One World Family Festival at the Ashmolean Museum. Venue: Gallery 14, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford. OX1 2PH.
The second part was a lecture about Peacebuilding and Interfaith Education.
PROGRAMME:
Welcome: Dr Thea Gomelauri, Director of the Oxford Interfaith Forum
Opening Address: Professor Julian Stern, Director of the World Religions and Education Research Unit at Bishop Grosseteste University
Keynote lecture: Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women Peacebuilders. Professor Azza Karam, a Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, President and CEO of Women’s Learning Partnership, and Secretary-General Emerita at Religions for Peace International (NY).
Closing Address: Professor Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia OBE KSG, Chair of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha and Nishkam Group of Organisations, Trustee of Religions for Peace International (NY), and President of Religions for Peace (UK).
The Book Presentation ‘Interreligious Learning and Peace Education: A History of Religions for Peace’.