Regional Interfaith Dialogue, Connecting and Cooperating for Peace and Harmony In the Asia-Pacific region
“Voice, Engage, Act“, – the model that the Interfaith Youth Corps teaches to students and mentors around the country and that I became familiar with during an Interfaith Leadership Institute with two other students from Syracuse, Azhar Ali and Ismail Pathan, and the Dean of Hendricks, Dean Tiffany Steinwert. During the four-day Institute at Georgetown University, we learned about IFYC’s model for interfaith work on college campuses and what events we could bring back to Syracuse.
Philippines: Drawing inspiration from internally displaced persons (IDPs) recovering from war in Central Mindanao, Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Quintos-Deles on Saturday stressed that they serve as a “testament that it is not impossible to rise above any conflict situation, and it does not need big and complicated steps to do it.”
The Buddhist Coalition for Social Development has led workshops promoting ethnic and religious understandings in local communities.