Educating for Global Peace
spiritual & ethical perspectives on peace & justice

a peace education center & biosophical institute sponsored lecture series
june - december 2006

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Please join us for this timely and provocative lecture series exploring spiritual and ethical perspectives on peace and justice towards educating for global peace. The SECOND talk in the series, "Islamic Values and Transformative Non-violence: Are they Compatible?" will be July 12, featuring Ibrahim Malik Abdil-Mu'id Ramey, Coordinator of the Peace and Disarmament Program at the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Board Member of the Temple of Understanding and of the Muslim Peace Fellowship.

ISLAMIC VALUES & TRANSFORMATIVE NONVIOLENCE:
ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?

IBRAHIM MALIK ABDIL-MU'ID RAMEY
Coordinator of Peace and Disarmament Program, Fellowship of Reconciliation; Board Member, Temple of Understanding and Muslim Peace Fellowship

Wednesday, July 12. 7-9pm.
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University (Milbank Chapel - 125 Main)
click here for directions to Teachers College

This presentation will examine, using both Islamic textual and exegetical sources and arguments, the concepts of Rahman (compassion) and Rahim (mercy) as central tenets of the religion of Al-Islam and the evolution of Islamic history and culture, and especially in the dimensions of the historic interaction of Islamic civilizations and social movements with the religious other.

I will also present examples of the subordination of the concepts of Rahman and Rahim in Islamic political conflict, particularly in the use of regular or irregular warfare, and offer suggestions for how the concepts might become part of the development of an authentic Islamic variant of transformative nonviolence.

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IBRAHIM MALIK ABDIL-MU'ID RAMEY

Ibrahim Abdil-Mu’id Ramey, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, is the coordinator of the Peace and Disarmament program of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack, New York.

He serves as a board member of the Muslim Peace Fellowship and the Temple of Understanding ( an interfaith organization promoting dialogue and cooperation among diverse religious traditions), the Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development, and several national peace and justice organizations. He also serves on the steering committees of the Religious NGO community and the United Nations and the Climate Crisis Coalition.

Ibrahim has also received several awards from local and national organizations for his international advocacy work for peace and nonviolent social justice, including, in 2000, the first Better World activist award from the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation and a Distinguished International Service Award from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs in 2004.

His current projects include the organizing of an international symposium on Gandhian theory and practice in October, 2006, and initiating a national network for Islamic Environmental Action.

~ free and open to the public ~ RSVP requested ~
Please note that lectures will take place at different venues.
Please contact the Peace Education Center for additional detail and to RSVP.
email: peace-ed@tc.edu / phone: (212) 678-8116

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE “EDUCATING FOR GLOBAL PEACE” LECTURE SERIES PLEASE VISIT US ON THE WEB AT WWW.TC.EDU/PeaceEd.

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Wednesday, July 12. 7-9pm
ISLAMIC VALUES & TRANSFORMATIVE NONVIOLENCE:
ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?
IBRAHIM MALIK ABDIL-MU'ID RAMEY
Coordinator of Peace and Disarmament Program, Fellowship of Reconciliation; Board Member, Temple of Understanding and Muslim Peace Fellowship
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University (Milbank Chapel - 125 Main Hall)

Tuesday, September 12. 7-9pm
ONE WORLD, MANY RELIGIONS: GETTING BEYOND DIALOGUE...
JOYCE S. DUBENSKY
Executive Vice President, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University

Thursday, October 19. 7-9pm
COSMOPOLITAN ETHICS & BEING PEACE: EXPLORING THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPIRITUALITY, JUSTICE, & PEACE
DALE SNAUWAERT
Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Social Foundations of Education; Chair of the Department of Foundations of Education, University of Toledo
Location: Fordham University Lincoln Center Campus (Room TBA)

Saturday, November 4. 1-3pm
EDUCATING FOR PEACE AT THE LEVEL OF OUR DEEP HUMANITY
PATRICIA MISCHE
Lloyd Professor of Peace Studies and World Law, Antioch College; Visiting Professor, School of International Service, American University; Co-founder and current President , Global Education Associates
Location: The Riverside Church

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Co-Sponsors
The Peace Education Center seeks to provide learning opportunities to inform wider public and academic audiences about critical and timely peace related issues. Peace related concerns are the concerns of all members of the human community. The Peace Education Center is pleased to work with several co-sponsors, from various disciplines and vocations, in the planning of this lecture series. Please take the time to introduce yourself to the work of our co-sponsors by clicking the links below.

Barnard Education Program; Biosophical Institute; The Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society; Fellowship of Reconciliation; Fordham University's Graduate School of Education; Global Education Associates; International Center for Tolerance Education; Peace Boat USA; Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding; Teachers College - Forum on the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Education, Office of Diversity and Community, and Office of the Vice President and Dean of the College; Temple of Understanding; The Riverside Church Mission and Social Justice Department