The peace-building processes worldwide are suffering numerous challenges, including terrorism, fundamentalism, environmental problems, ethnic, religious, identity, and gender tensions, migration, and several other challenges, all threatening security and peace in societies and exerting a far-reaching impact on the lives of the people worldwide. As significant sources that guide societies towards prosperity, world religions have long played a key role in providing their followers with the pathways to achieving peace. Therefore, it seems that theologians’ and religious thinkers’ intellectual synergies to find common mechanisms and their efforts for designing collective programs to achieve global peace can, on the one hand, be a good ground for communities’ peaceful coexistence at the regional and international levels and pave the way for the formulation of common solutions to global threats and insecurities, on the other hand.
Therefore, the IPSAN, as a pioneering association which has tried to contribute to the development of peace through facilitating dialogue among religious scholars and intellectual elites from different religions, is planning to convene its sixth annual conference on “Religions and Peace-building in the Third Millennium: Capacities and Challenges” on May31-June 1, 2023 in collaboration with scientific institutions around the world and with the presence of intellectuals and academia from different countries.
The conference aims to develop scientific literature on the topic of religions’ approach toward lasting peace, invite theologians and religious thinkers to reflect on peace and non-peace in today’s world, establish acquaintance and communication between religious-studies scholars in different countries, and find solutions for peace-making in today’s societies based on religious teachings. The Iranian Peace Studies Scientific Association considers it necessary to sincerely thank the collaboration of the members of the executive committee of the conference “Religions and Peacebuilding in the Third Millennium; Challenges and Capacities”, who with effort and empathy provided the ground for holding this conference.
ladies and gentlemen, Amin Alboghobaish, Vahid Baghban, Komil Entezari, Mahbobeh Ghobadi, Maryam Hashemi nejad, Dr Maryam Khaleghi nejad, Dr Mehrdad Khoram Nasr, Amir Hossein Mansour, Razieh Minaee, Hojatollah Mohammadshahi, Fatemeh Naseri, Seyed Alireza Shafiee Motahar, Maryam Shaygan, Pari Vakili.
Without the cooperation and support of these precious friends, the sixth conference of the association could not be held.
