Fethullah Gulen Tolerance, Dialogue and Peace
About the paper: This paper will aim to give an analysis of the different dimensions of Fethullah Gulen’s analysis of peace as horizon for the different activities of the faith-based service movement inspired by him. First of all, the author ...
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About the paper: One of the major analytical models for the study of new religious movements (NRMs) is that of Social Capital Theory. And among the NRMs increasingly cited as Social Capital case material is the THE GULEN MOVEMENT. This ...
Read More »Dialogic Humanism: Gulen’s Alternative to the Dialectic Humanity
About the paper: This presentation surveys humanism in Fethullah Gulen’s teachings and the Gulen movement’s activities, directly addressing the contemporary problems of conflict, clash and violence. Fethullah Gulen is a leading Islamic theologian and active advocate of dialogue in the ...
Read More »Fethullah Gulen’s Care for All Creation as a Means to Nonviolence
About the paper: The nonviolent and peaceful lifestyle of Fethullah Gulen reflects the Sufi belief that love is the essential element in every creature. Gulen’s own love extends to the entire universe, which is meant to be “read” by human ...
Read More »The Role of Education for Achieving World Peace
About the paper: Government schooling is only partly educational as it also has an objective of socialization that includes the indoctrination of a sense of national identity that sets a pattern that facilitates the military enterprises. Education that can be ...
Read More »The Problem of Defamation of Religions and the Freedom Solution
About the paper: This paper will present an analytical reflection of US policy in the current dynamic debate over how best to deal with defamation, stereotyping and worse…based on religion. The consensus reached among nations in Geneva early this month ...
Read More »Root Causes of Violence: A Historical Perspective
About the paper: No abstract available About the author: John Davies: Prof. John Davies is Co-Director of Partners in Conflict and Partners in Peacebuilding at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland; and SAIS Professorial Lecturer ...
Read More »Keynote speech: Socrates, Violence, Education, The Gulen Movement and Peace
About the paper: This paper will raise the following issues and ideas. First, that included among the issues repeatedly raised by Socrates more than 24 centuries ago was his concern to define terms that we habitually use. With that concern ...
Read More »The Role of the Media in Promoting Peace
About the paper: Every great information or communication advance in history has been seen in its time as furthering education a benefit that has certainly proved to be correct. These advances, such as printing, the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, ...
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