Women for Peace Against Fundamentalisms
A five year project whose purpose is to create alliances between women of faith who are working to end all forms of religious violence, including hate crimes and terrorism fueled by religious extremism.
The project is local, national and transnational in scope. The first stage of this project is being sponsored by the Interfaith Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada. The Interfaith Institute is bringing together an international Steering Committee of 11 influential women faith leaders, half of whom are Muslim, and half of whom are Christian, to develop the framework for the next five years. An initial four-day planning meeting of the Steering Committee will take place from February 1st – 4th 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Steering Committee will plan a 2013 conference, to be held in the Southern hemisphere, and develop a methodology for alliance building that incorporates new media and social networks. A central project objective is to share best practices of peace building and interfaith alliance building that support religious pluralism while respecting religious difference. Both the process leading up to the conference and the conference itself will be geared towards the development of concrete local initiatives that will follow from the conference in the following years. A component of the Steering Committee meeting will be four public events held in Vancouver to foster the development of local initiatives.
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