Muslim-American Peace Delegation to Iran: In November 2007, the Salam Institute led a Muslim-American Peace Delegation to Iran. The Delegation met with scholars, practitioners and religious leaders in the cities of Tehran, Qom, and Esfahan and discussed issues of peace, conflict resolution, democratization, human rights and dialogue in the Islamic tradition as well as Shia-Sunni...
The Salam Institute for Peace and Justice is undertaking a series of five-day training of trainers workshops on pluralism, diversity, tolerance, conflict resolution and human rights for imams in Egypt. This program aims to develop local capacities of imams in playing an effective role as agents and advocates of democratic reform and change by disseminating...
the Salam Institute for Peace and Justice and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) brought together some of the world’s foremost Islamic peacebuilding scholars from Iran ...
In partnership with the Fuller Theological Seminary, the Salam Institute organized and facilitated a series of interfaith dialogue workshops between American Muslims ...
Since 2008, the Centre for Peace Building and Reconciliation (CPBR) has been developing strong relationships with leaders from Sri Lanka’s diverse religious and ethnic communities, focusing on cultivating their capacity for personal and inter-personal transformation through intrafaith engagement. These efforts paved the way for interfaith encounters later in 2010, and the establishment and staffing of...
The current “Imam Exchange Program” seeks to engage Chadian Muslim communities on issues of religious tolerance, peaceful coexistence and Islam in America in order to facilitate an open dialogue on these issues in Chadian society, and, provide relevant and accurate information on American culture, laws, and attitudes towards the practice of Islam in the United...
Building on the successes of and lessons learned from its prior NED-funded project, Imams as Advocates for Democratic Change and Pluralism, Salam Institute’s current project “Religions: Leadership and Empowerment for Advancing Democracy (RELIGIONS LEAD) Initiative aims to elevate the role and capacity as community leaders of two cohorts of 24 select Muslim and Christian clerics...