Roundtable Breakfast
In this presentation, Professor Najeeba Syeed will share the components of interfaith solidarity, a separate trajectory for interfaith dialogue as a Peacebuilding process. This year Minnesota has experienced a heightened level of immigration enforcement. Najeeba will share some of the stories of interfaith collaborative care that have emerged in the crisis response over the last few months.
Najeeba Syeed is the inaugural El-Hibri endowed chair and executive director of the Interfaith Institute, and is a tenured and full professor of religion at Augsburg University. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Interfaith Forum.
Professor Syeed has served as a visiting professor at Yale and Mercer Universities and is a sought out advisor for programs around the country. She is an expert on Muslim-Jewish relations, and has worked extensively on Evangelical Christian and Muslim relations throughout the country, She served an Associate Professor of Interreligious Education and Director of the Center for Global Peacebuilding at Claremont School of Theology from 2010-2020.
She also brings significant executive experience with organizations as an executive director focused on conflict resolution in community, higher education, and government settings, including the Western Justice Center Foundation and the Asian Pacific American Dispute Resolution Center. In 2021, she served as chief of staff to an elected member of the Los Angeles city council. She holds a law degree from the Indiana University.
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About the Roundtable Breakfasts
The Roundtable Breakfasts are organized by Association for Conflict Resolution-NY and the CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay College. They take place the first Thursday of the month and are ongoing since 2001.
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