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Islam and Tolerance in Wider Europe — Washington D.C. public seminar and book launch
Together with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the International Policy Fellowships program co-hosted a public seminar at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC and distributed advance copies of the IPF book Islam and Tolerance in Wider Europe. WWC East European Studies Program Director Martin Sletzinger opened the mid-summer event attended by DC-based policymakers, researchers and media representatives, while several media organizations broadcasting portions of the seminar and participant interviews via satellite channels and other media outlets.
Featured panel presentations from OSI International Policy Fellows included:
- Ekaterina Sokirianskaia (Russian human rights organization Memorial; professor at Chechen State University in Grozny) Muslim communities and political Islam in the Caucasus
- Ahmed Idrees Rahmani (Stanford University; formerly with USAID in Afghanistan) Recent trends toward political Islam in Afghanistan
- Ihsan Dagi (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) Turkey's political reorientation toward the West
- Simeon Evstatiev (Sofia University and the Center for Intercultural Studies and Partnership, Bulgaria) Islam, tolerance, and religious education in Bulgaria
Central questions addressed by the panelists included: How has 'global war on terror' political rhetoric played out on the ground in post-communist and post-colonial societies engaged in nation-building? What are the links between marginalized Muslim communities and political Islam in Wider Europe? How can the West re-orient public policies to better address "Islam crises"?
The event was followed by a reception hosted by OSI-Washington DC.
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