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Turkey's Finance Minister, Mehmet Simsek Spoke at The Rumi Forum          
Rumi Forum Sponsors 2012 Marti Awards          
“Forging alliances between religious people for nonviolence and justice: reports from the field in Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria, and Israel and Palestine”, with Dr. Marc Gopin Dr. Gopin discussed recent experiences that he and his Center have engaged in to forge alliances for peace among over 100 Afghan imams and twenty international Islamic scholars.
Norfolk Interfaith Lecture Series 3: Religion and Science Organized by Rumi Forum and CNU Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies.
Norfolk Interfaith Lecture Series 2: The Role of Faith in Conflict Resolution and in Peace Establishment Organized by Rumi Forum and CNU Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies.
“Communications with Conscience: media ethics and the war on error” with Simon Cohen, founder and managing director, Global Tolerance With the media hacking scandals on both sides of the Atlantic, raising serious questions about global ethical standards in journalism, Simon Cohen, from the UK, explores a new paradigm of communications, and challenges the conventional wisdom that good news doesn't sell.
Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement, by Dr. Douglas M. Johnston, president and founder, International Center for Religion and Diplomacy How should the United States deal with the jihadist challenge and other religious imperatives that permeate today's geopolitical landscape?
Youth Platform Award Ceremony Date & Time:
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Location:
US Capitol - The Rayburn Gold Room The Gülen Institute at the University of Houston and Rumi Forum cordially invite you to the YOUTH PLATFORM AWARD CEREMONY.

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WHITE HOUSE: Celebrating Interfaith Collaboration with the Rumi Forum

The Rumi Forum honored their 2011 RUMI Peace and Dialogue Award honorees last evening at the National Press Club Ballroom in Washington DC. Full Story
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2011 RUMI Peace and Awards

The Rumi Forum honored their 2011 RUMI Peace and Dialogue Award honorees last evening at the National Press Club Ballroom in Washington DC.
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9/11 Commemoration Series 2011

The Rumi Forum with various partners organized numerous 9/11 commemoration events through out Washington DC, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky. Videos Pictures
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The Role of Civil Society in Peace building, Conflict Resolution and Democratization

Rumi Forum, in collaboration with Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, brought together prominent scholars of the nation's capital to discuss the growing importance of civil society in peace building, conflict resolution and democratization. Full Story
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Fethullah Gulen's interviews in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal

Please click on the following link to read these articles. Full Story
 
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Fethullah Gülen: Inspirer of Multi-disciplinary Studies

"The work of Gülen's followers in Turkey shows that Islam—as taught by Gülen—seeks tolerance, not conflict; it aims for a better society, not political power; and it manifests itself in prayer and concrete local action.""As early as the eighteenth century, Goethe knew that the East and the West were inseparable. However, today's society has not been able to fulfill Goethe's dream, although plenty of time has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Societies remain trapped in prejudices and stereotypes that strengthen the view of a separate East and West. European enlargement has made this even more pronounced and ...

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The Gülen Community: a Dynamic Muslim Movement of Peace and Dialogue

The topic that I want to address today is the movement associated with the name of the modern Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen. I suspect that as recently as 10-15 years ago, most of us had never heard the name of Mr. Gülen nor of the predominantly group of young Muslims who make up that community. Yet today, the community has over 600 schools,so called "Gulen Schools", including six universities, and operates in over 100 countries. In addition to their schools, they are the main inspiration behind dialogue institutes such as ...

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Fethullah Gülen as Educator

The topic that I chose for this paper is that of Fethullah Gülen as an educator. I must confess at the outset that I have arrived at the topic of my talk backwards. Rather than having studied the writings of Fethullah Gülen on education and pedagogy and then tried to see, in what might be called a deductive approach, how he has put these principles into practice, I have instead come to know first the educational institutions conducted by participants of the movement led by Mr. Gulen. This has led ...

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The Contribution of Interfaith Dialogue to Peace Building

To further its pursuits of interreligious dialogue, the Gulen movement has created the Intercultural Dialogue Platform as a project of the movement’s Istanbul-based Writers and Journalists Foundation. The IDP has been particularly active in sponsoring and organizing “Abrahamic” dialogues with high-ranking representatives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Gülen movement also organizes associations for the promotion of interreligious activities at the local and regional level, such as the Cosmicus Foundation in the Netherlands, the Australian Intercultural Society in Melbourne, the Friede-Institut für Dialogue in Vienna, the Interfaith Dialog Center of ...

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Foreword to the book: Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance

I can cite my own case as an example. I am a Catholic priest, an American living in Rome. I have known the members of the movement associated with Fethullah Gülen for more than a decade, and I can state that they are sincerely and impressively living the teachings of their spiritual guide. They respectfully call Mr. Fethullah Gülen “Hoca Efendi,” which simply means “Teacher.” The lessons in this book, derived from the Qur’an and Islamic tradition, form and shape the attitudes by which these Muslims practice their Islamic ...

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Jill Carroll talks on Fethullah Gulen, the honorary president of the Rumi Forum

Gulen Conference

Gulen Conference

International Conference: The Gulen Movement: Paradigms, Projects, and Aspirations.

Honorary President

Fethullah Gulen Fethullah Gulen is regarded as the founder and inspirer of the global social movement known as the Hizmet (Service) Movement, more popularly known as the Gulen Movement.

 

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