The institute of Citizenship and Diversity management at Adyan foundation has participated as an academic partner to the “Fondation des Cèdres” colloquium entitled “God’s word, Men’s violence”, which was held in Beirut from May 17 to 19th, 2017 at Ecole Supérieure des Affaires-(Clemenceau).
The conference started off with an inaugural lecture by Professor Olivier Roy, and was followed by sessions tackling the theme of the conference, based on a three-stage approach, “study of historical and today’s texts and speeches calling for violence in the name of religion”, “interpretation from different disciplinary angles” and “confrontation of academic reflection to the experience of NGOs fighting against that type of violence”.
This event was hosted by Fondation des Cèdres-Switzerland and French Protestant Church of Beirut, in partnership with the American University of Beirut (Beirut), Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), Institute of Citizenship and Diversity Management at Adyan Foundation (Beirut), Institut Protestant de Théologie (Paris, Montpellier), Université Catholique de Lyon (Lyon) and Saint-Joseph University (Beirut).
