Scenes from Addis Ababa 🇪🇹 , with our partners and networks at the ongoing World Interfaith Harmony Week commemorations.

A very interesting read by Katherine Marshall Katherine Marshall on 'Othering' - of ethnic and religious groups and communities. A challenge to #socialcohesion as we strive to achieve the Sustainable Development Global Goals #SDG & equal rights 4 all #FoRB #dkaid
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Today on #DiscoverViewpoints , read IF20 VP Katherine Marshall's recap of one of our Geneva meetings last month, and what education can do to help address the growing worldwide problem of 'Othering.'

➡️blog.g20interfaith.org/2024/04/05/soc…

Last year, 2023 was a tough year for United Nations peacekeeping. The UN’s “big four” multidimensional peacekeeping operations, accounting in 2023 for about 75 percent of the UN’s peacekeeping $6.3 billion budget, struggled to implement their mandates dialogueinitiatives.org/a-peacekeepers…

Female Genital Cutting Continues to Increase Worldwide nytimes.com/2024/03/07/hea…

Thirty Years of Anti-Corruption: A Personal Reflection frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/thirty-years-o…

I would like to wish everyone a Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. At the @WTO we spent the day listening to some of our preeminent female leaders in the organisation. Sharing their lifetime experiences on becoming female leaders and role models! Many…

'Without women at the tables of power, there can be no peace. No justice. No democracy.

Without women – in all their diversity – there is absolutely no progress at all.'

- UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on #WomensDay .

#InvestInWomen #IStandWithHer

🇦🇺 unequivocally opposes the desecration of any religious texts, places of worship & symbols, & is committed to countering hate speech & preventing discrimination against people of faith. I delivered 🇦🇺 statement today at 🇺🇳 #HRC at the discussion on countering religious hatred.

🌐 Preparatory meeting to organize the G20 Interfaith Forum in Brazil in August 2024! Scholars, and advocates for interfaith dialogue and cooperation shaping a transformative agenda for inclusion, respect, peace and cooperation. #G20InterfaithForum #Brazil2024 🇧🇷✨

Thrilled to report an excellent meeting today in preparations for the #G20InterFaithSummit in #Brazil this year! Exciting times ahead for fostering dialogue and cooperation among diverse faith communities. 🌍✨ #interfaith #summit

Lovely to have him back

What a delightful, humbling surprise to learn that our article on religious discrimination during regime change - co-authored with Hyun Jeong Ha & Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo - has been selected as the Nils Petter Gleditsch @jpr Article of the Year! prio.org/journals/jpr/a…
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Collaboration is key to addressing the world’s most pressing issues. Grateful to convene USAID’s Advisory Committee and have this distinguished group's insights on priorities like inclusion, localization, private sector engagement, democracy & governance, and more.

In academic seminars, 'Men are > 2.5 times more likely to pose questions to the speakers.This male skew was observable only in those seminars in which a man asked first question. When a woman did so, gender split disappeared'. CHAIRS PLEASE NOTE FIRST Q TO A WOMAN -
EVERY TIME.

Damned if you do(n’t): How did Western donors react to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act? Really insightful backgrounder on the limits to donor pressure over normative divides from Kristof Titeca democracyinafrica.org/damned-if-you-…

An advantage of using the evidence in Levitsky & Ziblatt is you can then build models to derive other results. My paper explains the mechanism by which authoritarian leaders begin by saying they will control corruption & end up with higher levels of both cronyism & corruption.

We just finished a fascinating discussion on a new Cross Cultural Religious Literacy program that’s trained 7000+ Indonesian school teachers, and its possibilities in much wider contexts.

Stay tuned for summaries and recordings of this event with Berkley Center

A Muslim faith leader calls for stronger moral leadership in the Middle East economist.com/by-invitation/…

Fabulous woman and friend, Nancy Adler