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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.