Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva
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Address<br />
Phone 212-967-7707<br />
Fax 212-967-9001<br />
TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS<br />
UNDERSTANDING<br />
Web www.tanenbaum.org<br />
E-Mail info@tanenbaum.org<br />
Category Dialogue<br />
Tanenbaum Center for Religious Understanding,<br />
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3502, New York, NY<br />
10118<br />
MISSION STATEMENT<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tanenbaum Center is the leader in providing practical programs so urgently needed to prevent the growing problem of verbal<br />
and physical conflict perpetrated in the name of religion. We are a non-sectarian organization that addresses unresolved tensions by<br />
helping to change behaviors in religiously-diverse workplaces, schools and in areas of armed conflict.<br />
Founding year 1992.<br />
Programs include:<br />
� Primary Education Programs.<br />
� Religious Diversity in the Workplace.<br />
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES<br />
� Religion and Conflict Resolution: <strong>The</strong> Tanenbaum Center convenes scholars, diplomats, government officials, clergy<br />
and other leaders on the use of religion as a resource to prevent or resolve conflict. Seminal publications such as Religion,<br />
Law and the Role of Force and the forthcoming book, Peacemakers in Action: Profiles in Religious Conflict Resolution, derive<br />
from these meetings. <strong>The</strong> center identifies and studies Peacemakers in Action - religious leaders who risk their lives working<br />
for peace - in order to learn new techniques and transferable practices. It also builds conflict resolution skills by training<br />
professionals working with ethnically and religiously diverse populations at the International Rescue Committee and by<br />
developing high school curricula with the National Crime Prevention Council.<br />
What is the Tanenbaum Center doing?<br />
� Through the Peacemakers in Action program, it identifies, studies and convenes religious leaders who work to<br />
resolve armed conflicts.<br />
� Each Peacemaker gets a monetary prize to further his/her work.<br />
� Research of their unique techniques and challenges.<br />
� Publishing the findings and share them with other religious leaders, scholars and government actors.<br />
� <strong>The</strong> center inspires men and women of religion to become peacemakers and encourages government actors to<br />
recognize and tap into religious leaders as responsible resources on the ground.<br />
� Cambridge University Press is publishing a book on the lives and work of the Tanenbaum Center's Peacemakers in<br />
Action in fall 2006.<br />
� <strong>The</strong> Center is launching the Women's Peace Initiative to identify women in the Middle East and North Africa who<br />
use religion in peacemaking. It will study and promote their work to bring attention to the power of women to<br />
effect positive change.