About the Initiative
An international initiative in Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding is central to Emory’s university-wide strategic initiative on Religions and the Human Spirit.

Emory’s distinctive approach to addressing religious conflict is to train scholar-practitioners to work with religious leaders, lay people, peacebuilding professionals, and non-governmental organizations to draw on the resources of religions for conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

Too often we only hear about the uses of religion to legitimize violence rather than examples – historical and contemporary – of religious people working together. Emory has the resources and expertise to concentrate on practices within religions themselves in order to address the causes of conflict between and within religions and to promote peaceful societies.

Lecture Series
The ethnic and religious violence that characterizes contemporary life calls for new ways of thinking and writing. As a response, Emory University has begun a major new initiative in Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. To help inaugurate this effort, the university is holding a series of public lectures related to these themes. The series includes a distinguished lineup of scholar-practitioners, each of whom has made significant contributions worldwide in the field of religion, conflict and peacebuilding.

The goal is to invite these experts to share their insights with the Emory and Atlanta community as the university embarks on a new phase of scholarship, research and outreach. As an institution deeply concerned with the growing challenges related to religious conflict and violence, Emory is proud to host these scholars as the first phase of marshalling its resources for exploring and fostering new possibilities for sustained peacebuilding.

Lectures