The Hizmet movement is a transnational, faith-inspired, civic society movement inspired by Muslim scholar Fethullah Gulen. The movement functions around the globe with educational institutes, interfaith-intercultural dialogue centers, media institutions, and humanitarian aid organizations with participants from diverse religious and cultural background. The program aims to focus on the educational and peace-building activities of the Hizmet movement in Nigeria, Philippines, Cambodia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
To this end, the session will host high school and college students from Nigerian-Turkish International College in Abuja, Filipino-Turkish Tolerance High School in Zamboango, and Turkish-Bosnian Burch College in Ilidza. The schools are located in current and past religious and ethnic conflict zones between Islam and Christianity. The invitee students, both Muslim and Christian, are currently attending or graduated from these educational institutes. The students will first touch on the academic-cultural aspects of the education in these schools. Then they will turn to discuss the hitherto and possible contributions of the Hizmet movement, thorough its educational activities, for creation of a culture of coexistence, peacebuilding, and resolution of the ethnically and religiously oriented conflicts in these countries.
Panelists:
Philip Clayton, Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology
Ozgur Koca, Assistant Professor of Muslim Studies, Bayan Claremont
Ibrahim Barlas, President and CEO of Pacifica Institute
Marina Pahl, A graduate of Cambodia/Turkish high school in Phnom Penh/Cambodia, a Sociology senior at Pacific Lutheran University
Mustafa Derahovic, Regional Director of the Federation of Balkan American Associations in St. Louis
Muazzam Idris, PhD student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Southern California, A graduate of Nigerian Turkish high school
Emmanuel Verona, Math teacher, Filipino-Turkish Tolerance School
Abduljim Hadil, Math teacher, Fountain International School Zamboanga/Philippines
Date: Saturday, October 17th
Time: 10:30am- 12:00pm
Venue: Salt Palace Convention Center, Room 155 E
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