Event Profile
The Global Congress on World’s Religions after September 11- An Asian Perspective is being organized by Centre for the Study of Comparative Religion and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in collaboration with Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Canada and will be inaugurated by his holiness Dalai Lama. The primary aim of the conference is to evolve a shared space for a dialogue on the positive role of world’s religions for securing peace, harmony and fundamental rights of the citizen. Another area of focus is the crucial contribution that the academic study of religion can make to the ongoing challenge of peace-building and peace-keeping, and in stimulating a civilizational dialogue among Asian and South East Asian cultures by drawing upon its vast corpus of knowledge, historical as well as phenomenological. The Congress intends to assemble a distinguished community of scholars and academics, leading voices and representatives from different faiths, the media and NGOs working in the field of peace-building. One major outcome of the Congress would be an Asian reflection on Human Rights discourse, in the form of a proposed Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions, as a supplement to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
The themes of the conference include Religion and Human Rights, Religion and Gender, Religion and Law, Religion and Healing, Religion and Indigenous Cultures, Religion and Literature, Religion and Media, Religion, Conflict and Peace, Religion and the Arts, Religion and Ethics, Religion and Globalization, Religion and Hermeneutics, Religion and Civilizational Dialogue and Religion and Ecology.
The panel titles include following:
Religion for or Against Human Rights, Should, Can, or do Religions Promote Peace, Religions as a Positive Resource for Human Rights, Religions beyond Patriarchy? The Role of Women in Peace Building, An Asian Civilizational Dialogue on World Religions, Conflict Resolution and Peace & Asia and the Academic Study of Religion.
