Peace Education and Religions
October 22-25, 2020
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International Virtual Conference on
Conference from 22th October to 25th October
Keynote Speakers
Riffat Hassan (University of Louisville)
Marios Koukounaras-Liagkis (University of Athens)
Juan Cole (University of Michigan)
Thursday, 22nd October 2020
3:00 p.m. : Opening Ceremony
Opening Speech:
Ednan Aslan, Islamic Theological Studies, University of Vienna
Video messages:
Prinz Hassan ibn Talal (rqd!)
Franz Schausberger, Chair of the Institute for European Regions
Moderation: Eileen M. Daily
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Keynote l – Riffat Hassan University of Lousville On Peace And Education: A Normative Islamic Perspective And Contemporary Considerations |
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
| 4:00 – 4:20 p.m. | Discussion |
Session I:
Insights Into Projects On Peace Education
Moderation: Eileen M. Daily
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 4:30 – 4:50 pm. | Short Input About the Current Project Uli Jäger, Germany |
4:30 – 4:50 pm. |
| 4:50 – 5:10 pm. | Elementary Education, Refugee Children and Peace Education: The Importance of a Peaceful Educational Environment in the Early Childhood as the Basis for their Sustainable, Successful and Fair Future: A Project Report Veronika Michitsch, Austria |
4:50 – 5:10 p.m. |
| 5:10 – 5:30 p.m. | Peace Weeks at ASPR – A Role Model for Peace Education Ursula Gamauf-Eberhardt, Austria |
5:10 – 5:30 p.m. |
| 5:30 – 5:50 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
Session ll:
Peace Education: Teacher Training and Teachers’ Experiences
Moderation: Zekirija Sejdini
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 6:00 – 6:20 p.m. | Preparing Future Religious Teachers: An Approach to Peaceful and Harmonious Coexistence among Different Religions Sami Adwan, Palas ne |
7:00 – 7:20 p.m. |
| 6:20 – 6:40 p.m. | Interreligious Learning as a Contribution to Peace Education, Empirical Insights into Christian-Islamic Teaching Şenol Yağdı, Austria |
6:20 – 6:40 p.m. |
| 6:40 – 7:00 p.m. | Religious Values and Peace Educa on – A Practical Approach Johannes Lähnemann, Germany |
6:40 – 7:00 p.m. |
| 7:00 – 7:20 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
Friday, 23rd October 2020
Session III:
Pedagogical Concepts for Coexistence and Peace Education Moderation: Sami Adwan
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 10:00 – 10:20 a.m. | Reclaiming the Public Sphere: Peaceful Coexistence through Pedagogies of the Scared, of Difference and of Hope Hanan Alexander, Israel |
11:00 – 11:20 a.m. |
| 10:20-10:40 a.m. | Eve of Destruction: Peace Education and Security Studies. Origins, Ends, Apocalypse Liam Gearon, Great Britain |
9:20 – 10:40 a.m. |
| 10:40- 11:00 a.m. | Ethics Education for Children: A Transforma ve Pedagogy Approach to Build Peace and Resilience Eleonora Mura, Switzerland |
10:40 – 11:00 a.m. |
| 11:00- 11:20 a.m. | Positive Concep on of Peacefulness, Well-Being, and Education – A Post-Covid Vision for Peace Education Scherto Gill, Great Britain |
10:00 – 10:20 a.m. |
| 11:20- 11:50 a.m | Panel Discussion |
Session lV:
Nonviolent Education and Peace Educat9on
Moderation: Farid Mirbagheri
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 01:30-01:50 p.m. | Non-Violent Education and Religions Arniika Kuusisto, Sweden |
01:30-01:50 p.m. |
| 1:50 – 2:10 p.m. | “Just War” to “Just Peace”: Recent Developments Ethics and Their Educational Implications Friedrich Schweitzer, Germany |
1:50 – 2:10 p.m. |
| 2:10 – 2:30 p.m. | Different Models for Nonviolent Education in the Context of Peace Education Are Demosthenous, Cyprus |
3:10 – 3:30 p.m. |
| 2:30 – 2:50 p.m. | Wrestling with the Notion of Peace: The Role of Experience in Early Quaker Articulations of Non-Violence L. Callid Keefe-Perry, USA |
8:30 – 8:50 a.m. |
| 2:50 – 2:55 p.m. | Panel Discussion | 2:50 – 2:55 p.m. |
Keynote ll
Modera on: Marcia Hermansen
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Keynote ll : Juan Cole University of Michigan Turning the other Cheek in the Qur’an |
09:00 – 9:30 a.m. |
| 3:30 – 4.00 p.m. | Discussion |
Session V :
Spirituality and Peace Education
Modera on: Ranja Ebrahim
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 4:00 – 4:20 p.m. | Peace through Love: The Sufi Peacebuilding Paradigm Julianne Hazen, USA |
10:00 – 10:20 a.m. |
| 4:20 – 4:40 p.m. | Sufi Perspectives on Peace: Resources for Peace Education Marcia Hermansen, USA |
9:20 – 9:40 a.m. |
| 4:40 – 5:00 p.m. | Spirituality and Posi ve Peace Garre Thomson, Great Britain |
3:40 – 4:00 p.m. |
| 5:00 – 5:20 p.m. | Mysticism and Paradigm Shift in Peace Education Farid Mirbagheri, Cyprus |
6:00 – 6:20 p.m. |
| 5:20 – 5:50 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
Saturday, 24th October 2020
Keynote III
Modera on: Dzintra Ilisko
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 9:00 – 9:30 p.m. | Keynote lll : Marios Koukounaras-Liagkis University of Athens Peace Education and Refugees, and Asylum Seeking Children: The Case of Greece |
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. |
| 9:30 – 9:50 p.m. | Discussion |
Session VI:
Different Conceptualizations of Peace Education within Religious Education
Moderation: Recep Kaymakcan
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 10:00- 10:20 a.m. | Interreligious Education in Fostering Peace and Sustainable Development Dzintra Ilisko, Latvia |
11:00 – 11:20 a.m |
| 10:20- 10:40 a.m. | Different Understanding of The Concept of Peace in Relation to Human Rights and Religious Education Ina ter Avest, The Netherlands |
10:20- 10:40 a.m. |
| 11:00-11:20 a.m. | From the Wells’: Teaching Openness in Judaism and Islam Towards a Shared Society in Israel Ayman K. Agbaria, Israel |
12.00- 12:20 a.m. |
| 11:20- 11:50 a.m | Panel Discussion | 11:20- 11:50 a.m |
Session VII:
Case Studies And Field Researches On Peace Education
Modera on: Sami Adwan
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 1:00 – 1:20 p.m. | Peaceful Socialization Question and Educational Institution: An Islamic Case Study Yaqub Foroutan, Iran |
2:30 – 2:50 p.m. |
| 1:20 – 1:40 p.m. | Filial Piety as Peace Education: A Case Study of Buddhist Resettlement Program for North Korean Defectors in South Korea Hyunji Lim, South Korea |
7:20 – 7:40 a.m. |
| 1:40 – 2:00 p.m. | Practices of Peace Education Followed in Secondary Schools of Mizoram Lokanath Mishra, India |
5:10 – 5:30 p.m. |
| 2:00 – 2:20 p.m. | The Analysis of Textbook Islam and Peace Education Being Taught in Madrassas of Pakistan Qamar Jafri, Australia |
11:00 – 11:20 p.m. |
| 2:20 – 2:50 p.m. | Panel Discussion 2 |
Session VIII:
Peace Education in Classrooms
Moderation: Esther Aslan
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 3:30 – 3:50 p.m. | Building Emotional Resilience as a Contribution For The Peace In Schools Colleen McLaughlin, Great Britain |
2:30 – 2:50 p.m. |
| 3:50 – 4:10 p.m. | The Dance of Love and Fear: An Emotional- organizational Perspective On Peace Education Shiri Lavy, Israel |
3:50 – 4:10 p.m. |
| 4:10 – 4:30 p.m. | Peace Education in Classrooms, Different Models Hind Kabawat, Syria |
9:10 – 10:00 a.m. |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Finding New Paths, The Challenge of Education for Peace in the Classroom Lucía Rodríguez Mc Keon, Mexico |
11:40 – 12:00 a.m. |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
Sunday, 25th October 2020
Session IX:
Islamic Theological Grounds and Peace Education
Moderation: İbrahim Koçyiğit
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 9:00 – 9:20 a.m. | The Role Of Progressive Islam on Furthering Peace Education Adis Duderija, Australia |
5:00 – 5:20 p.m. |
| 9:20 – 9:40 a.m. | The Islamic Prophet And the Hadith as a Basis for Peace Education? Development of the Potential of Prophetic Action as a Concept of Peace Ulvi Karagedik, Germany |
9:20 – 9:4 a.m. |
| 9:40 – 10:00 a.m. | “Nigeria’s Conflict Scenarios and the Potentials of Quranic Peace Pedagogy Musa Ismail Akin, Nigeria |
8:40 – 9:00 a.m. |
| 10:00-10:20 a.m | On the Cultiva on of Peace Education through a Quranic Paradigm of Human Flourishing Yusef Wagid, South Africa |
10:00 – 10:20 a.m. |
| 10:20-10:50 a.m. | Panel Discussion |
Session X:
Approaches From Turkey, Theory and Research
Moderation: Evrim Erşan Akkılıç
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 11:00 – 11:20 a.m. | The Impact of Migration on Secularization and Peace Education a Research on Jafaris Imigratied from Igdir to Istanbul Halkali Hasan Şen, Turkey |
12:00 – 12:20 a.m. |
| 11:20 – 11:40 a.m. | The Theology of Violence The Violence of Theology Ilhami Güler, Turkey |
12:20 – 12:4 p.m. |
| 11:40 – 12:00 a.m. | Alevi-Sunni Issue and Peace Education in Turkey: The Role of School Textbooks, Reality and Ideals Ali Yaman, Turkey |
12:40 – 1:00 p.m. |
| 12:00 – 12:20 p.m. | Evaluation of Teaching Christianity in Turkish Religious Education in the Context of Peace Education Recep Kaymakcan, Turkey |
1:00 – 1:20 p.m. |
| 12:20 – 12:50 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
Session Xl:
Peace Education and Global Learning
Moderation: Ulvi Karagedik
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 3:00 – 3:20 p.m. | Peace Education And Global Learning Alicia Cadezudo, Argentina |
9.00 – 9:20 a.m. |
| 3:20 – 3:40 p.m. | Peace Education and Global Learning: Challenges and Opportunities Mohamad Bashar Arafat, USA | 9:20 – 9:40 p.m. |
| 3:40 – 4:00 p.m. | Scaffolding for Peacebuilding Dialogues: A Relational Perspective of Peace Education on Countries with Sociopolitical Violence Irene Giovanni Aguilar, Columbia |
9:40 – 10:00 a.m. |
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion |
Session XII:
Prac ces From Uganda: Mohammad Bashar Arafat
| CMT | Participants | Time for Participants |
| 4:30 – 4:50 p.m. | Youth & the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis- Response and Resilience in Peace Building Jesse Nathan Kalange, Uganda |
5:30 – 5:50 p.m. |
| 4:50 – 5:10 p.m | Covid and Sexual Gender Based Violence in Uganda Be y Nantongo, Uganda |
5:50 – 6:10 p.m. |
| 5:10 – 5:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion |