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Global Inter-Faith Conference/Workshop

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 - Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies

12:00 noon5:00 p.m. Registration

1: 45 p.m. Welcome

1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Presentation

Mark Davidheiser, Nova Southeastern University

Religion's Janus-Faced Roles in Conflict & its Resolution: An Overview

Moderator: Edmund Abaka, Department of History/Africana Studies, University of Miami

1:50 p.m.2:40 p.m. Presentation

Charles G. MacDonald, Professor of International Relations, Florida International University:

Ethnic and Religious Conflict in the Middle East: The Kurdish Pursuit of Social Justice

Moderator: Victor Romano, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Barry University

2:45 p.m. -3:05p.m. Break - Coffee and Refreshments

3:10p.m.3:50 p.m. Presentation

Shaikh Shafayat Mohamed, Spiritual Head of Darul Uloom Institute

Chair:

4:50 p.m. -5:50 p.m. Roundtable Discussion & Participant Interaction


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Rabbi Baruch Plotkin, University of Miami


Friday Nov. 11, 2011Kresge Hall/College of Arts & Sciences Gallery

(1210 Stanford Drive)

12 noon4:00 p.m. Registration

12:40: p.m.1:15 p.m. Presentation

Jan Sokol-Katz, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Criminology, Department of SociologyUniversity of Miami: The construction of Identity

1:20 p.m.2:10 p.m. Presentation

Professor Siegfried Wiessner, Director, Global Justice Program; St. Thomas University

Law School

Indigenous Population and Spirituality

Moderator:

2:15 p.m.2:30 p.m. BreakCoffee & Refreshments

2:35 p.m.3:10 p.m.

Mirsad Krijestorac, Doctoral Student & Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies, F.I.U.

Religions and Ethnicity in the Balkans

Moderator:

3: 15 p.m.4:10 p.m. Presentation


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Professor Lawrence Abraham, Abraham Peace Foundation & School of International and

Public Affairs God Particle: Ethno-religious Conflict and Settled Identity

Roundtable:

Rey De Armas, Christ Fellowship Coral Gables, Campus Pastor

Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011Kresge Hall/CAS Gallery/Wesley Gallery

Roundtable

Rev. Mcneill, Pastor of St John's Methodist Church


Moderator: Sean D. Foreman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, Department ofHistory and Political Science

Barry University

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Participants

Mark Davidheiser, Nova Southeastern University (PM slot)

Religion's Janus-Faced Roles in Conflict & its Resolution: An Overview

is a sociocultural anthropologist with core specializations in Conflict and Peacebuilding and African Studies

Charles G. MacDonald, Florida International University: "Ethnic and Religious Conflict in

the Middle East: The Kurdish Pursuit of Social Justice."


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Charles G. MacDonald is Professor of International Relations at Florida International University.

He has taught at FIU since 1977. His teaching and research have focused on the Middle East,Kurdish ethnicity, international law, and human rights. Originally from Ohio, he grew up in

Florida and earned his BA from Florida State University. He earned his MA and PhD in Foreign

Affairs from the University of Virginia. He had a parallel career in the Air Force Reserve for

more than 30 years, primarily working on the Middle East and on counterdrugs at the nationallevel. He also served on the US Military Delegation to NATO. His students have been successful

in law, politics, education, diplomacy, the military, and various government agencies in the

service of the United States and other countries. His most recent book is Kurdish Identity:

Human Rights and Political Status, 2007 (jointly edited with Carole A. O'Leary). His most

recent research on the Kurds will appear in April 2012 in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to

Religion and Social Justice.

Jan Kokol-Katz, -- Director of Undergraduate Studies in Criminology, Department of

Sociology, University of Miami: The construction of Identity

Mirsad Krijestorac, Doctoral Student & Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies, F.I.U., will givea presentation on religious and ethnicity in the Balkans. Mirsad is specializing on the subject

and has presented papers on this subject in different national conferences (He is a doctoral

candidate in our department and a fellow at Middle East Studies).

Lawrence Abraham Consults regularly for the Ethiopian and Nigerian governments onEducation and Conflict Issues; as well as for the US Strategic Studies Institute. In addition to

teaching, his interest is in bringing the academy closer to the wider community. He is the author

of State Culture and Ethnicity in West Africa. His forthcoming book On Navigating David is

due out in Spring. He makes regular appearances on VOA TV/Radio to Africa on issuespertaining to conflicts in Africa.

Albert Wuaku, Assistant ProfessorAreas of Specialization: African and Caribbean ReligionsEmail: [email protected]
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]

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