JLI- KAICIID Webinar: Establishing Platforms in Conflict Areas to Support the Mobilisation of Local Faith Communities

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Date(s) - 06/09/2018
9:00 am

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Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities (JLI) is pleased to announce a joint webinar with the International Dialogue Center (KAICIID)

This webinar features two of KAICIID’s interreligious programs:
The Network for Religious Muslim and Christian Faculties and Institutes in the Arab World and the partnership in Nigeria to build inclusive and sustainable platforms for interreligious and intra-religious dialogue.

 

Agenda

  • Introduction by Dr Katherine Marshall at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center.
  • Regional experts Cosette Maiky (Arab Region), and Joseph Tanko Atang (Nigeria) will discuss the process success and challenges of platform development. Experts will also share how platforms can effectively increase engagement with local communities.

 

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Relevant Resources

Faith and Development in Focus: Nigeria    

About KAICIID Dialogue Knowledge Hub (DKH)

The DKH provides a virtual learning and networking environment for individuals and institutions, in order to increase the transmission of Interreligious Dialogue/ICD knowledge and skills through capacity-building. The ten e-tools provide users with both theoretical and practical knowledge, information and recommendations on IRD/ICD engagement.

Speaker Bios

Cosette Maiky

Arab Region Field Expert

Cosette Maiky is the KAICIID field expert for Iraq and Syria and is stationed in Beirut, Lebanon. Her professional experience consists of 10 years of hands-on work in conflict and post-conflict governance in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Georgia, India, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Philippines, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Ukraine and Yemen. Her clients included numerous international and humanitarian organizations (IOM, UNRWA, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCWA, UNFPA, UNOPS, GIZ, World Vision, ISWAN, JRS, Save the Children, Danish Refugee Council, Oxfam), as well as national, regional and inter-governmental bodies. She holds a PhD and a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in clinical psychology in addition to an Executive Master of Education in Psychosocial Intervention in War-Torn Societies.

 

Joseph Tanko Atang

Nigeria Field Expert

Joseph Tanko Atang is the KAICIID Field Expert for Nigeria. He has been involved in interreligious peace work in Nigeria since 1999. He is an experienced mediator and facilitator who has worked with several national and international organizations in Nigeria such as Search for Common Ground, United Nations Development Program, the Nigerian National Peace Committee, Presidential Reconciliation Commission for the Ogoni/SHELL Corporation Conflict and the HD Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. The focus of Joseph’s work lies in conflict-sensitive approaches to reconciliation and peace efforts. He holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, U.S., and certificates in public information and personnel management. In addition, he has attended many academic and professional training workshops in the United States, Kenya and Nigeria.

 Dr Katherine Marshall is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Visiting Professor in the School of Foreign Service. She is Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue.
Her long career with the World Bank (1971-2006) involved a wide range of leadership assignments. She was Country Director in the Bank’s Africa region, first for the Sahel region, then Southern Africa and led the Bank’s work on social policy and governance during the East Asia crisis years. In 2000 the World Bank’s president appointed her to a newly created post of liaison with faith-based development charities, with the objective of clarifying shared objectives and building trust and coordination.

If you have any questions for the speakers, please email [email protected] when you RSVP.