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Bridging Religious Divides: Building Genocide Resistance

Bridging Religious Divides: Building Genocide Resistance

 

Wednesday, September 24

Doors open at 8:30 a.m.

Event Time 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Utah Cultural Celebration Center

1355 W 3100 S, West Valley City

Cost: Free & open to the public; lunch included

 

 

Utah Global Diplomacy & Bellwether Internationalare proud to present the third annual Bridging Religious Divides Symposium: Building Genocide Resistance, part of the Ambassador John Price & Marcia Price World Affairs Symposium Series.

 

This transformative gathering brings together experts, community leaders, and advocates for peace to confront the dangers of religious intolerance and polarization. Through inspiring keynotes and discussions, we will explore genocide prevention, interfaith collaboration, and the role of diplomacy in fostering peaceful coexistence.

 

Join us in building resistance, celebrating diverse faiths, and advancing a shared vision of global harmony. Open to all committed to peacebuilding—be part of the change.

 

Agenda At A Glance:

 

9:00 a.m. Welcome

 

9:15 a.m. Interfaith Dialogue and Community Building: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation at War, featuring special guest speaker 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee

 

Break

 

10:45 a.m. Forecasting the Fires: How to Recognize and Respond to Early Warning Signs of Genocide presented by Rachel Miner

 

11:30 a.m. Lunch Networking Break

 

12:00 p.m. From Devotion to Dignity: Faith and Law as Foundations for Peacebuilding presented by Shima Baradaran Baughman

 

Break

 

1:30 p.m. Faith, Conflict, and Diplomacy: Lessons from the Middle East presented by Ambassador Matthew H. Tueller and moderated by Michael Christopher Low

 

2:45 p.m. Legacies of Stories: The Power of Narratives Shaping History and Identities presented by Palina Louangketh

 

4:00 p.m. Adjourn

 

Speakers listed in order of appearance.

 

Special Keynote - Leymah Gbowee

 

Leymah Gbowee Bridging Religious Divides Speakers2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

 

Leymah Gbowee is a peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Ms. Gbowee’s leadership of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace—which brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s civil war in 2003— is chronicled in her memoir, Mighty Be Our Powers, and in the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Ms. Gbowee is the Executive Director of the Institute on Gender, Law, andTransformative Peace Initiative at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. She is the founder of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, the founding head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, and the co-founder and former Executive Director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-A). She previously served as Executive Director of the Women, Peace, and Security Program at Columbia University. She is also a founding member and former Liberian Coordinator of Women in Peacebuilding Network/West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WIPNET/WANEP).

 

A global thought leader and international facilitator for peace, Ms. Gbowee has been named one of the 100 Most Influential African Women by Avance Media, one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy, by Apolitical, and one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Fortune Magazine. In 2020, Ms. Gbowee was honored with the Martin & Coretta King Inaugural Peace & Justice Award. She advises numerous organizations working for peace, women’s rights, youth, and sustainable development, andcurrently serves as a Member on the United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board on Mediation, as a Juror for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Hilton Humanitarian Prize, and as a Trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.Ms. Gbowee holds an M.A. in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, and has received a number of honorary degrees from universities around the world.

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>Bridging Religious Divides: Building Genocide Resistance

>Utah Global Diplomacy & Bellwether International

 

Founder and CEO of Bellwether International

 

Rachel Miner is the founder and CEO of Bellwether International, a 501c3 nonprofit that works in pre- and post- genocide communities to protect and promote freedom of religion or belief in the broader context of human rights. Rachel has a bachelors in economics and master’s in public administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2021, Rachel was named a U.S. Truman Scholar.

 

In 2019, after working with the Yazidis in Iraq, Rachel observed the humanitarian gap for religious minority groups that have experienced genocide, particularly in communities where freedom of religion or belief is violated, ignored, or deemed unimportant. Rachel founded Bellwether International in London, UK to respond to pre- and post-genocide communities who have experienced severe violations of freedom of religion or belief.

 

Our model is to recruit locally and implement sustainably. As such, we rely on local partners and community project leaders to collaborate on holistic solutions that ensure peace and stability for years to come. Protecting freedom of religion or belief for one is protecting human rights for all.

 

Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law and a Distinguished Fellow at the Wheatley Institute, Brigham Young University

 

Shima Baradaran Baughman is one of the top cited faculty in her field and a nationally recognized expert on bail, prosecutors, and police.Her current scholarship examines forgiveness, prosecutorial discretion, and how religious institutions impact criminal justice reform. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, on National Public Radio, the Economist, the Washington Post, Forbes and other mediaoutlets. She presented her work at Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Texas, NYU, UCLA and many other law schools, as well as groups of federal and state judges and attorneys across the country. Baughman has worked with empiricists on experiments involving advanced empirical modeling and randomization, including the largest global field experiment in the world. Her articles have been published in top law journals including University of Pennsylvania Law Review, USC Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Texas Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Boston University Law Review and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Her 2018 book, The Bail Book: A Comprehensive Look at Bail in America's Criminal Justice System with Cambridge University Press was the first book in the third wave of bail reform. Baughman is also a coauthor of Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies (6th Ed Aspen), with Paul Robinson and Michael Cahill. She is also coauthor of the most popular criminal law student study aid, Examples & Explanations in Criminal Law (9th edition).

 

Baughman started her legal teaching career at BYU Law School in 2010 where she was voted Professor of the year. In 2013, Professor Baughman joined the faculty at the University at Utah Law School where she was faculty for eight years, and Associate Dean of Faculty Research and Development for two years. She served as Chair of the AALS Criminal Justice Section Executive Committee in 2015-16. Baughman also has chaired several American Bar Association Committees including the ABA Pretrial Justice Taskforce, the Committee on Crime Prevention, Pretrial Release & Police Practices, and the Corrections Committee. Professor Baughman served from 2014-2018 as a member of the Utah Sentencing Commission.

 

Before joining the legal academy, Professor Baughman was a Fulbright Senior Scholar researching pretrial detention in Malawi and lecturing in criminal law at the University of Malawi. While in Malawi she worked as ajustice advisor to the British Department for International Development, advised a coalition of international nongovernmental organizations including UNAIDS and UNDP, and represented criminal defendants in felony cases and in constitutional litigation.

 

Between 2005-2008, Professor Baughman worked as a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York, receiving national press coverage for role in religious freedom prison reform litigation. After graduating first in her class at Brigham Young University Law School and serving as editor-in-chief of the BYU Law Review, Shima Baradaran Baughman clerked for Judge Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

 

Baughman has been blessed with five children and moved to the United States at the age of seven as a refugeefrom Iran. She enjoys yoga, pickleball, and hiking.

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Amy Lynn Andrus

 

Amy Lynn Andrus_Utah Global DiplomacyAssociate director at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University Law School

 

Amy Lynn Andrus is an associate director at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University (BYU) Law School. She earned a JD, an MA in international development, and a BA (summa cum laude) in English from BYU. Amy served as an attorney advisor in the U.S. Attorney General’s Honors Program. She co-administers the ICLRS Young Scholars Fellowship on Religion and the Rule of Law, held annually at Christ Church, Oxford. Amy is coauthor of Religion and Law in the United States, a volume in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Religion (Wolters Kluwer 2024, with Brett Scharffs and Elizabeth Clark).

 

 

 

Ambassador (ret) Matthew H. Tueller

 

Amb. Matthew TuellerFormer U.S. Ambassador

 

Ambassador Matthew H. Tueller, a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, retired from theU.S. Foreign Servicein 2022 with the rank of Career Minister. He served as Chief of Mission in Iraq (2019-2022), Yemen (2014-2019), and Kuwait (2011-2014). He is the recipient of three Presidential Honor Awards, two Distinguished Service Awards from theCentral Intelligence Agency,the Secretary of Defense's Civilian Career Achievement Award, and five Superior Honor Awards from the Department of State.

 

Ambassador Tueller also served overseas as Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Cairo; Political Minister Counselor at Embassy Baghdad; Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Kuwait; Political Counselor at Embassy Riyadh; Chief of the U.S. Office in Aden, Yemen; Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Doha; Political Officer at Embassy London; and Political Officer and Consular Officer at Embassy Amman. His Washington assignments included Deputy Director in the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs and Egypt Desk Officer.

 

Ambassador Tueller holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University and a MPP from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is married to DeNeece Gurney of Provo, Utah and together they have five children and nine grandchildren.

 

Michael Christopher Low

 

michael christopher lowAssociate Professor of History and

Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah

 

Michael Christopher Low is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. Low received his PhD from Columbia University in 2015 and previously taught at Iowa State University. He is the author of Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (Columbia University Press, 2020). In 2021, Imperial Mecca received the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award and was shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. Imperial Mecca has since been translated into Arabic and Turkish. Low is also co-editor of The Subjects of Ottoman International Law (Indiana University Press, 2020). In 2020-2021, he was a Senior Humanities Fellow for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi. His current book project, Saltwater Kingdoms: Fossil-Fueled Water and Climate Change (under contract with University of California Press), examines desalination, infrastructure, energy, and climate change in the Arabian Peninsula and beyond. He is Series Editor of Transregional Middle East (University of Utah Press) and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Global History, Journal of Tourism History, and the Middle East Environmental Histories book series from Leiden University Press.

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Dr. Palina Louangketh

 

FounPalina Louangkethder and CEO/Executive Director, Idaho Museum of International Diaspora and

Professor of Multicultural Studies and Ethics in Society, Boise State University

 

Dr. Palina Louangketh is a former refugee from Laos. She and her family resettled in Boise, Idaho in 1981. Her family’s harrowing journey to the U.S. inspired her vision to honor and elevate the human journey on a global scale. As the founder and CEO/Executive Director of the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora (IMID), she is passionate about connecting communities to cultures of the world through creative storytelling platforms. She holds a Doctor of Strategic Leadership (DSL) degree with a concentration in Strategic Foresight from Regent University’s School of Business and Leadership in Virginia Beach, VA. Aligned to her Bronco roots as an alumna from Boise State University with a Master of Health Science and Bachelor of Science degrees, she also teaches a doctoral-level Organizational Leadership course at Boise State’s School of Public and Population Health and an undergraduate course – Ethics in Society – in the University Foundations Program. She designed and launched a set of multicultural courses – IMID’s Global Diaspora Curriculum – at Boise State Honors College. This curriculum served as the backbone for the IMID’s inaugural launch of its annual signature global conference in Slovakia in 2023. As a recent recipient of the Fulbright award, she will be serving as a U.S. Fulbright Specialist in Slovakia this fall to lead a team of researchers in the EMERGE initiative, a European university alliance working to transform higher education in peripheral regions, to prepare her co-launch of an international global competencies training curriculum for university faculty and policy makers across Europe.

 

A Note on Scheduling and Rosh Hashanah

 

At Utah Global Diplomacy, we deeply value the diverse faith traditions that enrich our community. We recognize that this year’s Bridging Religious Divides Symposium falls on Rosh Hashanah, a sacred time of reflection and renewal for members of the Jewish community.

 

This scheduling conflict was not intentional. Planning events with numerous speakers and partner organizations often requires complex logistics, and despite our best efforts, we sometimes fall short. For this, we offer our sincere apologies.

 

We remain committed to fostering inclusive dialogue and respectful engagement. We are exploring ways to ensure the themes and conversations from this symposium are accessible to those who are unable to attend in person.

 

Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

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We are located in the Washington Mansion at Independence Square

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Hi Felecia, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.

I was a first-generation college student. I went to college two days before the semester started, sought out an advisor, and said, “Ok, I’m here. Now, what do I do?” Growing up, people told me I had to go to college, which is precisely what I did. A friend told me I had to apply to colleges, and luckily, one college accepted me; however, no one told me how to “go to” college.

 

The advisor sat with me the rest of the day and helped me register for classes, find an apartment, and apply for jobs. Of course, because it was the start of the semester, most classes were full, so I was enrolled in courses like the History of 15th Century Chinese, Drama 101, and Advanced Poetry Writing, which I blindly thought would be easy because when I was in high school, a magazine published one of my poems. I went from a straight-A student to failing my first semester, with a professor telling me I was way over my head.

 

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