In the Aftermath of Sandy Hook I imagine that most of you, like me, are still stumbling with unrelenting grief for the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre of this past Friday. We lived through too many of these events these past years, but it feels different this time. I think…

The Hizmet movement began in the 1970s in Turkey to improve education and grew into a global civic movement which encourages interfaith and intercultural dialogue. It is inspired by the ideas of Fethullah Gulen, who Foreign Policy magazine listed as the “World’s top intellectual.” Gulen a scholar, educator and author…

One might think that a seemingly utopian goal of preventing violence and achieving world peace is a finished debate because conceptual and theoretical discourse related to ethnic and confessional discord have reached an impasse. However, despite the fact that founding principles of modern liberalism, laid by the Enlightenment-era thinkers, have…

Quality education is one of the most leveraged investments for catalyzing development, promoting global health and reducing poverty and universal education is one of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.  Despite this, there are still hundreds of million children and young people not in school. Recent numbers from the UNESCO Institute…

The basic values that mark the twenty-first century are modernism, pluralism, individualism, and religion. Some claim that modernity embraces individual and social life as a whole, and that it has created new forms of religious, cultural, and political pluralism. There is no doubt that the world today is in need…