Peace

"Even when religious life in the country of origin stops because of exile and displacement, the influence of religion persists not only through family life, culture, and transnational forms of communication, but it is also changed by the cultural and...

Several HDS alumni are involved with the founding of Peace House, which, from its corner in downtown Cambridge, Massachusetts, reveals the transformative power in balancing aesthetics with ascetics.

T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding Jocelyne Cesari writes on the religious component of the global refugees crisis and its consequences for governance.

The below message was sent to members of the HDS community from Dean David N. Hempton on May 16, 2022. Dear members of the HDS community, The violent, premeditated, and racist hate crime perpetrated on the Black community of Buffalo, New York, has...

Experts, including former extremists, discussed efforts to counter hate groups and extremist violence at a panel at Harvard Divinity School on Monday.

Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz and Rutgers University associate professor Noura Erakat discussed power and decolonization in Palestine and Israel in a virtual conversation hosted by the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at HDS.

Cheyenne Boon, MDiv '23, Seminarian, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on April 1, 2022. ♦♦♦ Our reading this morning comes from an interview with the writer Barry Lopez, published in December 2019. When asked...

Taurean J. Webb, 2021-22 Fellow in Conflict and Peace with the Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative at HDS, presented a collaborative art exhibition called “Ye Shall Inherit the Earth & Faces of the Divine” at a virtual event sponsored by the Religion...

Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, discusses how nationalism has hijacked Russian religion.