Category: Building Interfaith Communities

Building Interfaith Communities

Handshakes and hand gestures: What they mean in different cultures and how they can build interfaith understanding

In our globalized age, understanding other cultures is more important than ever. While handshakes and hand gestures can seem ordinary, they can have a great impact, especially in negotiations, contracts, and solving misunderstandings. Handshakes and…

Joseph Chung

how handshakes and gestures can build interfaith understanding
Building Interfaith Communities

The Importance of Interreligious Exposure: Blessing Someone’s Religious Practice from a Place of Knowledge and Empathy

Before I came to America, my interreligious experience was limited by the lack of cultural diversity in my home country of Peru. There, I had only been exposed to different branches of Christianity.  When I…

Liz Ryan

importance of interreligious exposure
Building Interfaith Communities Equitable Justice & International Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Practices: Part 3 – Understanding, Not Persuasion: Interfaith Dialogue for Contentious Topics

Welcome to Part Three of our series on peacebuilding practices at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. Like the posts on Relational Space and Paraphrasing, this one begins with a friendship, and like those…

Phoebe Milliken

reflective structured dialogue for interfaith cooperation
Building Interfaith Communities Equitable Justice & International Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding Practices: Part 1 – Friendship and Relational Space as a Foundation of Peacebuilding

Welcome to a three-part series on peacebuilding practices at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. A central aspect of peacebuilding is prioritizing relationships over agreement.   Difference and diversity are desirable and healthy, and…

Phoebe Milliken

friendship and relational space in peacebuilding