Pre-Parliament Event in Wheaton
Hearing Each Other
Healing the Earth
Interfaith Dialogue and Luncheon
Saturday, July 25, 2009 ~ 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Previously, Dr. Bronson served as Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Dr. Swanson holds a doctorate from the Pontifical Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome. From 1984 - 1998 he taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo, Egypt. He joined the faculty of Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. in 1998, where he was the director of the Islamic Studies Program.

Dr. Mujahid is President of Sound Vision Foundation, and Chairperson of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago. He has written extensively on religion, public policy and applied aspects of Islamic living.
 

Zabrina Santiago oversees involvement of local interreligious movements in cities around the orld in preparation for the 2009 Parliament event. She recently earned a master's degree in theological studies from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.

 

Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) is an entrepreneurial, Chicago based international organization that seeks to build a movement of young people creating religious pluralism through cooperative social action and dialogue. IFYC envisions a world in which young people from diverse religious and philosophical perspectives interact peacefully to create unerstanding and collaboration, thereby strengthening civil society and stabilizing global politics.