31 July-1 August 2024
On 31 July and 1 August 2024, the ICLRS cosponsored a Workshop with Multi-Faith Neighbors Network (MFNN) featuring five multi-faith partnerships of Muslims, Jews, and Christians who have worked together on pressing issues in different countries and regions:
Muslim, Jewish, and Christian representatives of each partnership participated in a moderated panel discussion that elicited the challenges faced and lessons learned in working together, as well as their plans for future collaboration.
Panel moderators were Mark Hill KC, global professor of law and distinguished fellow at the University of Notre Dame London Law Programme; Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom; Pastor Bob Roberts, founder of GlocalNet and cofounder of MFNN; Imam Mohamed Magid, executive religious director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center; Elder Robert M. Daines, General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint; and Brett Scharffs, ICLRS Director.
While day one of the Workshop was held at Christ Church, University of Oxford, day two was hosted by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and featured a tour of its impressive building, library, and grounds by Dr. Afifi al-Akiti, the Centre’s Kuwait Fellow in Islamic Studies.
Plans are underway to continue the Workshop’s conversation about multi-faith collaboration through a larger conference, a blog series, and/or another publication that will inform and encourage future multi-faith efforts.