Featured speakers include Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, president of the American Sufi Muslim Association; Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism; and Ronald Young, co-coordinator of the National Interreligious Initiative for Peace in the Middle East.
Over the past two years, religious leaders of most of the major Jewish, Muslim and Christian entities in the United States have come together in support of a common agenda for U.S. policy toward the Israeli/Palestinian conflict called the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East.
Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold and others in the Episcopal Church have been active in this effort. Two of the religious leaders, along with the Protestant layman who helped organize this ground breaking initiative, will discuss the challenges and opportunities involved in finding common ground on the hotly-contested issue of the U.S. role in promoting peace in the Middle East.
Documents associated with the National Interreligious Initiative can be found at: http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/international/holylandpeace.htm or http://www.walktheroadtopeace.org/national_leadership.php or http://www.adifferentfuture.org
The program is sponsored by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Center for Social Concerns, the Theology Department and its Program on Catholic Social Tradition, and the Office of Campus Ministry of Notre Dame University.
