Biuletyn Academic Forum for Peace

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A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT ON INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

ACADEMIC FORUMFOR PEACE

Poland | Wrocaw | Noember 14th15th , 2011

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ACADEMIC FORUM FOR PEACE

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Organizers: ....... Institute o Philosophy, University o WroclawInstitute or the Study o Islam

Sponsors: . . . . . . . . . Muslim League in Poland, Qualication Muslims Cultural Society inPoland, University o WroclawThe Rector Magnicus o the University o Wroclaw, Universityo Wroclaw, Faculty o Social Sciences Grant No. 1294/M/IF/11Academic Forum or Peace )

Partners: . . . . . . . . . . University o Oxord St Antonys College), Orthodox PeaceFellowship, Portland State University, Sociology o Islam andMuslim Societies Network

Media patronage: Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog, Stowarzyszenie Arabia.pl,Stowarzyszenie Nigdy Wicej, Fundacja i Orodek Pogranicze - sztuk, kultur, narodww Sejnach, Akademickie Radio LUZ, Cerkiew.pl, Przegld prawosawny, As-Salam

Newsletter Editors: Agata Jakubowska, Katarzyna Jdrzejczyk-Kuliniak

Consultation: Pawe Wrblewski, Katarzyna Osak

Design: Grzegorz Jaszczyszyn

Special thanks to the Mayor o Wroclaw, Doctor Raal Dutkiewicz and theMunicipal Oce o Wrocaw or help and support in organizing the AcademicForum or Peace


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a multidisciplinary project on intercultural dialogueACADEMIC FORUM FOR PEACE

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IntroductionMankind was entering the 21st century with a mixture o optimism and

concern. On the one hand, the end o the cold war seemed to removethe root cause o main tensions and hostilities present in the history othe short twentieth century. In addition, the rate o globalization anda airly high level o economic growth, particularly in the last decade othe century, provided a hope or the uture ree rom atal disparities indevelopment among countries and or the continuation o the process omodernization o societies. However, on the other hand, it was remem-bered that the cold war in some parts o the world rom time to timetook a orm o open, hot conrontation. It still is a real threat, despitethe all o the Berlin Wall and the subsequent slowdown in the arms race.Some reasons or the persistence o that danger were linked to the ideao the clash o civilizations, a prognosis o the progressive radicalizationo ethnic, cultural and religious diferences among societies and com-munities around the world, leading to the their undamentalization.Empirical research has been carried out which very quickly invalidatedthe appropriateness o using that hypothesis as a new paradigm in theeld o international afairs. However, the specter o tribal wars andtribalism could not be expelled. Moreover, one more actor emerged or reminded about itsel that makes the prospects o universal peacevery uncertain. The economic crisis afected numerous communities andgroups, as well as amilies and even individuals, dividing and conicting

them efectively. Food Wars are becoming a disturbing reality.

To what extent is it appropriate, desirable or advisable to reer under the circumstances describedabove to reections, discussions and debates among intellectuals? They ailed to predict the col-lapse o the nancial markets. And not inrequently these are intellectuals who propagate sloganso hatred, in the name o which many cleansings, pogroms and acts o terror are being commit-ted. We believe, however, that the recent perplexities constitute a demand or more, and not less,intellectual reection. Our Academic Forum is being designed as a multidisciplinary conerenceconsidering the relationship between the theory o peace and the broken realities o politics andinternational relations. To regard this matter only rom an economic, juridical or strategic-deensiveviewpoint is not sucient. In this context, the theological and philosophical aspect cannot be dis-regarded, because all the sins against humanity war, violence, victimization o all kinds arethe results o the resignation rom a holistic and regulative vision o a world participating in theeschatological and transcendental Peace. This vision o heavenly Peace brings seless love andorgiveness, but cannot be identied with any political system or social order. Thats why Christiansand Muslims have ailed to make society seems vague.

Both o these religions are looking or a proportionality between the theory and praxis o peace.In this endeavour they will surely take into account all non-negotiable rights, principally religiousreedom, which is an assurance o respect or all other reedoms. The Conerence, eaturing lecturesand panels that ocus on nding ways o building a more peaceul world, gives s\the opportunityor positive re-shaping interreligious and intercultural relations and it might be able to provide

new models o coexistence and cooperation or ministries o peacemaking.


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The meaning o our logoA logotype that was designed specially or the Forum by renowned Polish artist Micha Staszczakcombines all o the oundational assumptions o our academic project.

The author used a circle, a symbol o sacrum, excellence and unity, to orm a round table theme,and thus the place o encounter and dialogue. The round shape ensures equality and parity opartners, as evidenced by the even number o seats around the table.An olive branch moti, ormerly associated with the victory, nowadays globally recognized as asymbol o peace and alliance, lls the circle, metaphorically becoming the main eld o interest.

The whole logo is maintained in sober, peaceul but resh colours. Green symbolizes balance andstability. Moreover, it denotes also a recovery, return to the lie and progress o the mind and body.It is a symbol o hope that accompanies the dialogue participants. By using white, author enrichesthe narration o such quality as innocence, purity and integrity. It is a space where you can breathe,what encourages to action and improvement. These colours complementing the orm o harmoni-ous whole, thereby efect positively on the audience.


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About the projectThe Academic Forum or Peace is being designed as a multidisciplinary conerence consideringthe relationship between the theory o peace and the broken realities o politics and internationalrelations. To regard this matter only rom an economic, juridical or strategic-deensive viewpointis not sucient. In this context, the theological and philosophical aspect cannot be disregarded,because all the sins against humanity war, violence, victimization o all kinds are the results othe resignation o a holistic and regulative vision o a world participating in the eschatological andtranscendental Peace. This vision o heavenly Peace brings seless love and orgiveness, but can-not be identied with any political system or social order. Thats why Christians and Muslims haveailed to make society in their ideal images. Both o these religions are looking or a proportionalitybetween the theory and praxis o peace. In this endeavor will surely take into account all non-ne-gotiable rights, principally religious reedom, which is assurance o respect or all other reedoms.

The Conerence, eaturing lectures andpanels that ocus on nding ways obuilding a more peaceul world, givethe opportunity or positive re-shapinginterreligious and intercultural rela-tions and it might be able to providenew models o coexistence and coo-

peration or ministries o peacemaking.The keynote speakers o the Forum willbe Metropolitan Kallistos Ware Ox-ord), Proessor Tariq Ramadan Oxord)and Proessor Horst Brkle Munich).

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The Jubilee MedalsThe Rector Magnicus o the University o Wroclaw, Proessor Marek Bojarski, awarded the JubileeMedal o the University to honorary guests o the Forum, Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Proessor Ta-riq Ramadan and Proessor Horst Brkle, or recognizing their outstanding achievements in growth

o science and o interreligious and intercultural dialogue.

His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Proessor Emeritus at the University o Oxord, is themost well-known and respected philosophizing theologian, called the Orthodox Newman. Thismost eminent contemporary Orthodox thinker became amous as a champion o peace and recon-ciliation. His Grace is a monk o the Holy Monastery o St. John the Theologian on Patmos underthe jurisdiction o the Ecumenical Patriarchate o Constantinople, titular Metropolitan o Diokleia Archbishop o the Patriarchal Throne.

Doctor Tariq Ramadan, Proessor o Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University o Oxord, asthe president o the European Muslim Network in Brussels is highly engaged in intercultural and in-teraith dialogue in the international arena. In recognition o the enormous contribution o Proes-sor Ramadan to the eld o Islamic studies theology, philosophy, law and jurisprudence, appliedethics, social justice, economy, politics) he is counted among the worlds top 100 contemporaryintellectuals.

Doctor Horst Brkle, Proessor Emeritus o Comparative Religious Studies at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity o Munich, a personal riend o Pope Benedict XVI and a disciple o Paul Tillich, Karl Barthand Romano Guardini, is a world-renowned and preeminent Roman Catholic expert on religiousand mission studies, also a co-ounder o the European Academy o Sciences and Arts.

The medals ceremony will be held on 14th November, 2011 in the Aula Leopoldina, University oWroclaw.

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The Honorary Guests

METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WAREUniversity o Oxord, UK)For the Peace rom Above:

the Understanding o Peace in the New

Testament and the Orthodox Liturgy

His Excellency The Most Reverend Kallistos, Metropolitan oDiokleia Timothy Ware), was born 11th September 1934 inBath Somerset, England). He was educated at WestminsterSchool to which he had won a scholarship) and MagdalenCollege, Oxord, where he took a Double First in Classicsas well as reading Theology. In 1958, at the age o 24, heembraced the Orthodox Christian aith having been rai-sed Anglican), traveling subsequently throughout Greece,spending a great deal o time at the Monastery o St. Johnthe Theologian in Patmos. He also requented other majorcenters o Orthodoxy such as Jerusalem and Mount Athos. In 1965 he was ordained to the Diaconate,

and in 1966, to the priesthood and was tonsured as a monk, receiving the name Kallistos. In the sameyear, he became a lecturer at Oxord, teaching Eastern Orthodox Studies, a position which he held or 35years until his retirement. In 1982, he was consecrated to the episcopacy as an auxiliary bishop with thetitle Bishop o Diokleia, appointed to serve as the assistant to the Bishop o the Archdiocese o Thyateiraand Great Britain. Despite his elevation, Metropolitan Kallistos remained in Oxord and carried on hisduties both as the parish priest o the Oxord Greek Orthodox community and as a lecturer at the Uni-versity. Since his retirement in 2001, Metropolitan Kallistos has continued to publish and to give lectureson Orthodox Christianity, travelling widely. Until recently, he was the chairman o the board o directorso the Institute or Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. He is the chairman o the group Friends oOrthodoxy on Iona. He is the Chairman o the Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue. MetropolitanKallistos serves on the advisory board o the Orthodox Peace Fellowship. On 31st March 2007 he waselevated to Metropolitan, by the Holy Synod o the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Metropolitan Kallistos isperhaps best known as the author o the book The Orthodox Church, published when he was a laymanin 1963 and subsequently revised several times. More recently, he produced a companion volume, TheOrthodox Way. But his most substantial publications have emerged rom his translation work. His GraceKallistos o Diokleia is perhaps the most knowledgeable, sensitive, and articulate spokesman or Orthodox

Christianity in the West. As a writer o both popular and academic works, a translator o the highest order,

a participant in countless theological dialogues, and an inspiring and genuinely enlightening speaker and

pastor, Bishop Kallistos has raised the level o awareness o the Orthodox Church to new heights His Emi-nence Archbishop Demetios o America rom a cover o the bookAbba: The Tradition o Orthodoxy inthe West. Festschrit or Bishop Kallistos Ware, J. Behr, A. Louth, D. Conomos eds.), St. Vladimirs Seminary

Press, 2003).

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PROFESSOR HORST BRKLELudwig Maximilian University oMunich, Germany)

Peace: A basic issue in the ChristianDialogue with Asian Religions

Horst Brkle born on 9th June 1925 in Nieder-WeiselHesse, Germany). In the years 1945-1952 he studiedtheology at the universities o Bonn, Tbingen, Co-logne as well as at the Union Theological Seminaryin New York, USA, where he deended his Mastersthesis on the topic o Eschatology and the Under-standing o Time. A Study o the Relation betweenTheological Eschatology and Philosophical Under-standing o the Concept o Time in ContemporaryProtestant Theology under the direction o proes-sor Paul Tillich In 1910 Tillich was awarded a doc-toral degree or his dissertation on the concept oreedom in Schellings philosophy written under thesupervision o Eugen Khnemann at the University o Wroclaw). In 1956 he received a doctoraldegree in theology or his dissertation entitled The Understanding o Time in the Early DialecticalTheology and the Concept o Time in the Philosophy o Martin Heidegger supervised by proessorHelmut Thielicke at the Department o Evangelical Theology o the University o Hamburg, where

subsequently he would hold the position o the Head o the Academy o Mission in 1959. Followingthat, in 1964 he obtained a postdoctoral degree and assumed a position oPrivatdozentin the eldo the studies o religion and religious missions. In the years 1965-1968 he was a guest lecturer atthe International University o East Arica in Kampala, Uganda. In the years 1968-1987 worked asa proessor and the Head o the Department or Mission and Religious Studies at the University oHamburg. During this time he lectured as a Visiting Proessor in Brazil, India, New Guinea, South Ko-rea and Japan, among others. In 1987 under the inuence o his riendship with Joseph Ratzingerhe converted to Roman Catholicism. From 1988 until his retirement in 1991 he held a position oa Proessor o Religious Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University o Munich, were he previouslyserved as a deputy vice chancellor in the years 1973-1975. He is one o the ounding memberso the European Academy o Sciences and Arts and sits on the editorial board o a German edi-tion oCommunio, a prestigious Catholic periodical co-ounded by Joseph Ratzinger. He is also amember o the Theological Commission at the International Christian Network. For many years heserved as a member o Grres-Gesellschat Advisory Board. At invitation o the Pope Benedict XVIFoundation, he was one o the two guests who delivered a lecture in Castel Gandolo during theannual meeting o Pope Benedict XVI with his ormer students in 2009. He is married and has twodaughters.

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PROFESSOR TARIQ RAMADANUniversity o Oxord, UK)Requirements or Peace

Named by Time magazine as one o the 100 mostimportant innovators o the 21st century, Tariq Ra-madan occupies a unique place among leading Is-lamic thinkers. Representing a new generation oIslamic reormers, Dr. Ramadan advocates the explo-ration and application o Islamic traditions and va-lues within a modern pluralistic context, calling onWestern Muslims to embrace Western culture ratherthan reject it. Proessor Tariq Ramadan holds MA inPhilosophy and French literature and PhD in Arabicand Islamic Studies rom the University o Geneva.In Cairo, Egypt he received one-on-one intensivetraining in classic Islamic scholarship rom Al-AzharUniversity scholars.

Tariq Ramadan is Proessor o Contemporary Isla-mic Studies at Oxord University Oriental Institute, StAntonys College ). He is also teaching at the Faculty o Theology at Oxord. He is at the same time a Vis-iting Proessor in Qatar Faculty o Islamic Studies) and in Morocco Mundiapolis) and a Senior ResearchFellow at Doshisha University Kyoto, Japan).

Proessor Tariq Ramadan is currently President o the European think tank: European MuslimNetwork EMN) in Brussels

Ramadan has written more than twenty books exploring the dicult issues o reinterpretationand reorm within Islam itsel and between the Islamic world and its neighbors around the globe.His books include Western Muslims and the Future o Islam Oxord University Press, 2003), Islam,the West, and the Challenges o Modernity The Islamic Foundation, 2000), To Be a European Mus-lim The Islamic Foundation, 1998), and Jihad, Violence, War and Peace in Islam in French only,Tawhid, 2002). He has also published a total o 700 contributions or articles in collective books, aca-demic reviews, and magazines. Through his writings and lectures he has contributed substantiallyto the debate on contemporary Islamic issues, Islamic revival in the world and Muslims in the West.He is active both at the academic and grassroots levels lecturing extensively throughout the worldon theology, Islamic law and jurisprudence, applied ethics, philosophy, social justice, economy,politics, interaith and intracommunity dialogue.

Last books : The Quest or Meaning: Developing a Philosophy o Pluralism, Penguin, UK,2010,What I believe OUP USA Nov 2009), Radical Reorm, Islamic Ethics and LiberationOUP USANov 2008).www.tariqramadan.com/BIOGRAPHY.html, www.enlightennext.org/magazine/bios/tariq-ramadan.asp)

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MR JIM FOREST, General SecretaryO The Orthodox Peace FellowshipNetherlands)

Born 2nd November 1941, is a writer, lay theologian,educator, peace activist. Since 1989, a year ater hisreception into the Orthodox Church, he has beeninternational secretary o the Orthodox Peace Fel-lowship as well as editor o its quarterly journal, InCommunion. In 1964, while still a Roman Catholic,he was a ounder o the Catholic Peace Fellowship.In the late sixties and mid-seventies, he also workedwith the Fellowship o Reconciliation, rst as Viet-nam Program coordinator and later as editor o Fel-lowship magazine. From 1977 through 1988, he wasSecretary General o the International Fellowship o

Reconciliation, work which brought him to the Neth-erlands. He received the Peacemaker Award romNotre Dame Universitys Institute or InternationalPeace Studies and the St. Marcellus Award rom the Catholic Peace Fellowship. As a young man,Jim served in the U.S. Navy, working with a meteorology unit at the U.S. Weather Bureau headquar-ters near Washington, D.C. It was during this period that he became a Roman Catholic. His militaryservice ended with an early discharge on grounds o conscientious objection. Ater leaving theNavy, Jim joined the staf o the Catholic Worker community in Manhattan, working close with theounder, Dorothy Day, and or a time serving as managing editor o the journal she edited, TheCatholic Worker. In 1964, while working as a journalist or The Staten Island Advance, in his sparetime he began the Catholic Peace Fellowship, working closely with Tom Cornell. This became a ull-time job or both o them in 1965, a time that coincided with deepening U.S. military engagementin Vietnam. The main ocus o their work was counseling conscientious objectors. In 1968, whileJim working as Vietnam Program Coordinator o the Fellowship o Reconciliation, Jim and thir-teen others, mainly Catholic clergy, broke into nine Milwaukee drat boards, removing and burningsome o the les in a nearby park while holding a prayer service. Most members o the MilwaukeeFourteen served thirteen months in prison or their action. Jim had a long-term riendship withThomas Merton, who dedicated a book to him, Faith and Violence. Jim also accompanied the amedVietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh. A journalist and writer, his books include Prayingwith Icons, Ladder o the Beatitudes, The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way o Lie, biographieso Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day, and several childrens books, including Saint George and the

Dragon and Silent as a Stone: Mother Maria o Paris and the Trash Can Rescue . He and his wie Nancy,a translator and writer, live in Alkmaar, The Netherlands.

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The Prince Constantine Basil Ostrogski Prie has been awarded since 1989 by the Przeglad Pra-woslawny The Orthodox Review) or outstanding achievements in the development o Orthodoxtheology, thought and culture, as well as notable contribution to the process o reconciliation oChristians. The prize has been awarded irrespective o religious or country borders. Until 2009,

seventy-seven people rom thirteen countries were honoured with the Prince Ostrogski Prize.


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THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMMonday, Noember 14th, 2011

THE AULA LEOPOLDINAAddress: University o Wroclaw, pl. Uniwersytecki 1 1st .), Wroclaw, Poland

10:00 AM WELCOMERector Magnicus o the University o Wroclaw, Proessor Marek BojarskiRector Magnicus o the Christian Academy o Theology in Warsaw and President o thePolish Ecumenical Council, Archbishop Jeremiasz AnchimiukGreat Chancellor o the Papal Faculty o Theology in Wroclaw, Archbishop MarianGolebiewskiRector Magnicus o the Papal Faculty o Theology in Wroclaw, Monsignor WaldemarIrekMuti o the Muslim League in the Republic o Poland, Imam Nidal Abu TabaqChairman o the Polish Parliamentary Group or the Prevention o Discrimination andPersecutions o Christians in the World, Senator Jan Filip LibickiMayor o the City o Wroclaw, Doctor Raal DutkiewiczPresident o the Muslim League in the Republic o Poland, Mr. Samir Ismail

AWARD CEREMONY OF THE JUBILEE MEDAL OF THE UNIvERSITY OF WROCLAWtoHIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST REVEREND METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE University

o Oxord, UK)THE HONORABLE PROFESSOR HORST BRKLE Ludwig Maximilian University oMunich, Germany)THE HONORABLE PROFESSOR TARIQ RAMADAN University o Oxord, UK)

by the Rector Magnicus o the University o Wroclaw, Proessor Marek Bojarski

AWARD CEREMONY OF THE PRINCE KONSTANTY OSTROGSKI PRIzEtoMR. JIM FOREST, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE ORTHODOX PEACE FELLOWSHIPNetherlands)

by the Editor-in-Chie o the Przeglad PrawoslawnyMagazine The Orthodox Review), Mr.Eugeniusz Czykwin

Sacrum and Profanum for Peace Concert of the Orthodox Choir oktih conducted by Fr. Protodeacon Grzegorz

Cebulskiand the Early Music Ensemble Viiiconducted by Mrs. Agnieszka Drozdzewska

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12:30 PM HONORARY GUESTS LECTURES

METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE University o Oxord, UK)

For the Peace rom Above: the Understanding o Peace in the New Testament and the

Orthodox Liturgy

PROFESSOR HORST BRKLE Ludwig Maximilian University o Munich, Germany)

Peace: A basic issue in the Christian Dialogue with Asian Religions

PROFESSOR TARIQ RAMADAN University o Oxord, UK)

Requirements or Peace

14:00 PM Break

15:30 PM SESSION

JIM FOREST General Secretary o the Orthodox Peace Fellowship, Netherlands)

The Challenge o a 20th Century Saint, Maria Skobtsova

Mother Maria Skobtsova -- now recognized as Saint Maria o Paris -- died in a Germanconcentration camp on the 30th o March 1945. Although perishing in a gas chamber,Mother Maria did not perish in the Churchs memory. Survivors who had known her

would again and again draw attention to the ideas, insights and activities o the heroicnun who had spent so many years o her lie assisting people in desperate need. Soonater the war ended, essays and books about her began appearing in French, Russianand English. A Russian lm, Mother Maria, was made in 1982. Her canonization wascelebrated in May 2004 at the Cathedral o St. Alexander Nevsky in Paris. Among thosepresent at the event was Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop o Paris and Jewishby birth, who subsequently placed St. Maria on the calendar o the Catholic Church inFrance. One wonders i there are any othersaints o post-Schism Christianity who are onboth the Catholic and Orthodox calendars?Every saint poses a challenge, but Mother Maria is perhaps among the most challen-ging saints. Her lie is a passionate objection to any orm o Christianity that seeks Christchiey inside church buildings. Still more prooundly, she challenges each o us to alie o a deeper, more radical hospitality, a hospitality that includes not only those whoshare our aith and language but those whom we regard as the other, people in whomwe resist recognizing the ace o Christ.Mother Maria was certain that there was no other path to heaven than participating inGods mercy. The way to God lies through love o people. At the Last Judgment I shallnot be asked whether I was successul in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows andprostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked, Did I eed the hungry, clothe the naked,visit the sick and the prisoners. That is all I shall be asked. About every poor, hungry andimprisoned person the Savior says I: I was hungry and thirsty, I was sick and in prison.

To think that he puts an equal sign between himsel and anyone in need.... I alwaysknew it, but now it has somehow penetrated to my sinews. It lls me with awe.


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We can sum up Mother Marias credo in just a ew words: Each person is the very icon oGod incarnate in the world.

THE REvEREND PROFESSOR EMERY DE GAAL University o St. Mary on the Lake, USA)

The Theological Category o Peace as a kerygmatic Imperative in the Thoughts o Pope

Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVIs understanding o the nature o peace is based on Scripture andChurch teaching and heightened by Augustine and his personal experience o WorldWar II. While the world is capable o dening and generating some kind o peace, hu-man yearning or peace ultimately transcends the world. It nds its ull denition in theBlessed Trinity. This enables a threeold perspective on peace. While the secular world,world religions and Christianity have their respective denitions o peace, theirs arenot one o mutual exclusivity but one o progression. This allows Christians to labor orpeace both with other religions and with the body politic. By ollowing Jesus Christ anddoing God the Fathers will Christians contribute to the cause o peace, mindul thatonly the eschaton will grant peace in its ull sense.

PROFESSOR NAJM AL-DIN YOUSEFI Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)

Reinterpreting Early Islamic History or Peace and ToleranceThe paper will argue that the early biographies have placed disproportionate emphasison a peculiar notion o jihad, hence contributing to a distorted image o Muhammadscareer as a prophet and a political leader. I will propose certain approaches that will helpus arrive at a more realistic and more tolerant conception o Islam. I will also providesome insight into how this reinterpretation will oster a more peaceul relationshipbetween Muslims and other nations, especially in the West.

THE REvEREND DOCTOR IGNATIOS STAvROPOULOS Secretary o the Holy

Monastery Metamoroseos in Napaktos, Greece) A just Peace in Europe: An Orthodox perspective

The preservation o peace, a standing demand o all peoples, is a common good that allwant to maintain or achieve, so much so that even some wars are conducted under thepretext o maintaining peace. Is it easy to have peace and indeed a just peace or all, not apeace that avours specic groups? Is peace something that is perceived in the same way

by everyone? And how to achieve a just peace when the weak and unarmed negotiatewith the strong and armed? Ultimately, it is possible to know the real will o decision-makers today? Could it be that some do not actually want just peace?By telling his disciples Whosoever will come ater me..., Jesus establishes the spiritualreedom o man. He thus establishes the obvious, that no one can achieve what he orshe do not really want. By the same token, just peace or all cannot be achieved i it is notsought by all.In recent years, terrorism brought back ear to everyday European lie. Nobody can ruleout anything and nobody can reassure anyone. Let us just remember the recent tragedyin Norway.Peace to all is the undamental prayer and invocation - blessing o every Christian priest,

especially during the celebration o the Divine Liturgy.This hope and prayer o the Christians is today necessary and perhaps more timely than ever.


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Conclusions:

1. For Christianity, peace as a spiritual goal is the highest spiritual good and commando Christ, who taught love and peace by sacricing Himsel and not others.

2. True and just undisturbed peace is a divine git that is born in mans heart and ex-

tends to everyone.3. Christianitys legacy on peace in Europe and the international community is a precio-

us treasure, as it may orm the basis or a just and thus sustainable peace on earth.


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Tuesday, Noember 15th, 2011

THE AULA OF THE OSSOLINSKI NATIONAL INSTITUTEAddress: ul. Szewska 37 , Wroclaw, Poland

10:00 AM SESSION (1st)Moderator:PROFESSOR TUGRUL KESKIN (Rutgers University, USA)

PROFESSOR BRUNO DRWSKI National Institute or Eastern Languages andCivilizations, France)

Collective Security, Disarmament, Sot Power, Constant Wars.The Role o Ethical andReligious Communities and o Social Movements at the Time o the Crisis o the InternationalLaw

Ater the Second world war, the great powers accepted the Charter o the United Na-tions and consequently the principles o general disarmament, collective security andnon intervention in the internal afairs o each State. Even i these goals could not beully realized, a tremendous diplomatic work was launched with important results onthe legal ground so the danger o war seemed to be constantly diminishing rom thebeginning o the cold war up to the time o the peaceul coexistence and deten-te . But now humankind is witnessing back unending series o uncontrolled wars andoreign interventions, mainly but not only in the so-called Great Middle East , andEastern Congo and surroundings countries have been the theater o the most bloodyand silent conict happening since 1945. This evolution seems to be the consequenceo various actors : the end o the post-second world war balance o power, the crisiso the dominant economical system, the disintegration o the traditional values at the

very same time with the crisis o the Letist ideologies , etc. But simultaneously, weare witnessing very diferent orms o religious rebirth and the development o neworms o social activities taking into account ethical questions. This situation seems toopen the road to new perspectives or a peaceul uture. Under certain conditions wehave to take this time into account.

THE REvEREND PROFESSOR BOGDAN FERDEK Papal Faculty o Theology, Poland) Oikoumene as an Instrument o Peace: Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue in the light o the

Ravenna Document

The dialogue concerning the issue o papal primacy has been conducted within theJoint International Commission or Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Churchand the Orthodox Church. The present state o the dialogue is delineated in the Raven-na document entitled Ecclesiological and Canonical Consequences o the SacramentalNature o the Church: Ecclesial Communion, Conciliarity and Authority. On the basis othis document we can answer the questions o how the Orthodox and the Christiansunderstand primacy, o the extent to which they are already united in their interpreta-tion, o what yet remains a matter o contention and o the possibility o uture agre-ement.Being the icon o the Holy Trinity, the Church must at the same time be conciliar innature and have its protos. Conciliarity and proteio must be visible on all planes o

the Churchs lie, i.e. local, regional and universal. According to the Ravenna document,primacy and synodality are interdependent. Thereore primacy at the diferent levels o


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the lie o the Church must always be considered in the context o synodality and syno-dality, similarly, in the context o primacy. Primacy on the universal plane is recognizedboth by the East and by the West. The diferences in understanding o papal primacyconcern its exercise and its biblical oundations.

A reinterpretation o the primacy o the Bishop o Rome could be conducted in a com-parable manner to the correction to the matter o Holy Orders made in SacramentumOrdinis rom 1947. The Council o Florence in the Decree or the Armenians rom 1439established that an essential element in conerring the Orders was the delivery o thechalice with wine and the paten with bread. This gratuitous addition to the originalsacrament was annulled by Pius XII. It meant a conscious return to the tradition o theAncient Church and, by the same token, to the Eastern Orthodox Church. It was therebyan amendment to the Western tradition made in accordance with the norms o theUniversal Church. The Western tradition o primacy could be likewise amended in thelight o the tradition o the Ancient Church so that the Bishop o Rome would come tobe recognized as presiding in love.

PROFESSOR JAN KRASICKI University o Wroclaw, Poland) Peace and Saint Peace: Considerations on the modern Project o Peace and its Limits

In the paper I set orth the problem o the legitimacy and limits o the modernist pro-ject o peace. Having demonstrated that the project was ounded on the ideals o theEuropean Enlightenment, I try to prove that it involved not only the humanistic po-tential but also a hidden totalitarian threat. The argument is developed on the exam-ples o Kant and other philosophers o the Enlightenment, Hegels political thought,Solovyovs project o ecumenical theocracy, and, nally, theses proposed by such critics

o the concepts o Enlightenment and modernity as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault andBauman. I conclude by stating that the answer to the question o the limits and per-spectives o the project is connected not with politics or progress but is o anthropo-logical and metaphysical nature as it reers to the perennial question o the nature andessence o man.

DOCTOR JOzEF MATULA Palack University o Olomouc, Czech Republic) The Concept o Tolerance as a Precondition or the Development o Peaceul Society: Some

Historical Refections

In recent decades, one can point out that in spite o the roaring technological successo our civilisation we anxiously watch wars, conicts and violence in various parts othe world. The global and virtual world is marked by both strong intercultural commu-nication and at the same time by intercultural or religious conicts. I a comprehensivepeaceul order is to be accepted today in a global scale, it must by no means be dictatedby one side. It opens the question o precondition o peaceul societies. The aim o thepresentation is to show how the concept o tolerance in diferent historical periods oEuropean history determined the concept o peace. The premodern period o Europeanhistory has a reputation o being intolerant, which is connected especially to religiousmatters. The historical research o the concept o tolerance demonstrates that leadingintellectuals o European thought have always paid attention to constitution o the the-

oretical roots o peaceul and prosperous society. Especially in times o global crisis anddisasters and they mobilised their intellectual gits to revise contemporary knowledge


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and education in avor o achieving peace or human society. The systematic elucidati-on and oundation o peace seems to be a undamental part o great thinkers across thehistory o European thought.A closer look to the theories o tolerance and peace reveals the spirit o European cul-

ture: the rational ability to analyse the reality and to conront reality in reection, tore-shape it into convincing principles and to plan the uture. This capacity is positiveand constructive but at the same time it seems to slide into destructive state throughits concrete realisation and development. This rational aspect o European cultureseems to be alienated in its substance which determined serious negative implicationsand decits o European culture subject-centrism or alienation rom religious mat-ters which are the pillars o European identity. I believe that the aim o the research-ers who deal with the history o ideas is to reveal various meanings o tolerance andpeace concepts in diferent periods. The archeology o intellectual eforts in historyprovides us with diferent denitions o tolerance and peace in accordance with thehistorical and spiritual conditions o contemporary time. Our attention which we payto intellectual eforts in diferent historical periods unveils a common characteristicso the leading intellectuals they try to project a tolerant and peaceul society. Theirtreatises, stigmatized by the conditions o their time, by the historical situation and spe-cic philosophical-theological resources, are an important testimony to the search ortolerance as reconciliation o diferent worlds. Although they were leading intellectualsin the past history, their endeavour to build theoretical and institutional undamentalsor peaceul and tolerant society should be appreciated ully in our time when modernsocieties are threatened by intransigent undamentalism or sophisticated suppressiono human dignity.Tolerance is not moral indiference; it is rather the understanding o inner reedom and

determination o man. Only through the understanding o this specic place o maneducation can become the area where true peace and true humanity is realized as wellas the area which is the basis and presupposition o peaceul society. Only in this waythe mutual respect and reconciliation can be born, respect and reconciliation whichtranscend the very sphere o man and understands the universe in its various and di-erent maniestations as a part o common lie.

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12:30 PM SESSION (2nd)

Moderator:PROFESSOR TOMASz STEFANIUK (Maria Curie-Skodowska University,Poland)

PROFESSOR TAHIR ABBAS (FRSA, Fatih University, Turkey) Muslims in Britain: Challenges and Opportunities or Equality and Diversity

The issue o Islamophobia has become rampant in the post-9/11 period with a particu-lar ocus on British Muslims as a threat to the existing social order, and where recentdiscussions have ocused on the securitisation o multiculturalism rather than elimi-nating structural inequalities. This talk provides a socio-historical context in relation tothis challenge, ocusing on the social, economic, and political issues that have afectedpost-war Muslim migrants and communities in the UK context. Although a generallydiscursive concept, Islamophobia does have precise analytical purchase. Nevertheless,it remains hotly contested with many who voice the view that by constantly ocusingon the signicance o Islamophobia, deep-seated socio-cultural community character-istics that are potentially damaging to integration as well as the well-being o youngpeople in particular remain under-exposed. Based on research that has concentratedon patterns o discrimination acing young British South Asian Muslims and a ocus onthe cause o political radicalism among these very young people in more recent peri-ods, it is argued that a particular orm o Islamophobia has become embedded in so-ciety which persistently characterises young Muslims as anti-integration, misogynists,violent, reactionary, bigoted and culturally regressive. While these are indeed problem-atic assertions that add to existing patterns o disadvantage, aspects o the experiences

o British Muslim communities remain under-discussed in public discourses, much thedeterminant o Muslims and wider society in general. Moreover, in the global multicul-tural context, the importance o dialogue and co-existence has been overlooked. Inorder the meet the challenges o diversity, a more robust discussion o the concepts odiversity and equality is required, as well as a more open rationalisation o the problemsand opportunities at hand. While the UK experiences particular problems in the currentperiod in relation to downward pressures on public nances, historically it is been themost progressive in relation to multiculturalism and diversity management. Muslims inBritain are actively shaping a presence in society, and with greater consideration o thewider and specic issues at play the UK can once again become a leading light acrossWestern Europe in relation to multiculturalism.

PROFESSOR ADAM CHMIELEWSKI University o Wroclaw, Poland) Faith and Fallibilism

The author addresses the issue o the place o religion in the public lie o contemporaryWestern societies. He argues that the state based on religious laws has proven itsel tobe incapable o preserving peace and tolerance between citizens proessing diferentreligions. He also argues that since it is unreasonable to expect a allibilist humility andmoderation rom religions, it is the task o the state to ensure a ramework in whichindividuals may be able to live in peace whatever religion they proess. In conclusion,

he harks back to the amous speech by Clermont-Tonerre in which he proposed to re-use to accord a collective recognition o other ethnic groups, while ofering ull range


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o right to their individual members. Accordingly, he proposes that the solution willhave to be based on two distinctions simultaneously: one, between the positive andnegative recognition, and the other, between the individual and collective recognition.Accordingly, the liberal states policies toward religion is to stem rom the juncture o

these two distinctions: the state is to extend its negative recognition to those ormso groupings o its citizens which have proven themselves incapable o observing theprinciples o toleration o others, and, simultaneously, a positive recognition to the civicright o all as individuals. This solution naturally involves a presumption o the validityo a third distinction, the one between the private and the public. Even though thedistinction between the private and the public is permanently undermined by the actthat all private is political and, rom an agonistic view o the political, it cannot be de-ned precisely once and or all, it nevertheless points to a political measure which has toollow rom an awareness that a legitimate state cannot become a sae-haven to all re-ligions proessed by its citizens i it does not transcend all their incompatible claims toincontestable truth. This cannot be achieved by a state that proclaims it own completeallibility versus religions.

PROFESSOR DEEPA KUMAR Rutgers University, USA) Islamophobia and the Politics o the War on Terror

This lecture will examine the historic encounter between the East and the West, lookingat both moments o conict and cooperation. I will argue that contrary to the myththat a clash o civilizations has characterized the relations between the West and theMuslim world, history shows that the East-West encounter has been both complexand dynamic. Such a historical analysis is particularly important in order to situate the

war on terror and the emergence o a new Muslim enemy. The presentation will ocuson the US context and discuss the rise o Islamophobia ater the events o 9/11.

PROFESSOR TUGRUL KESKIN Portland State University, USA) The increasing Trend o Islamophobia in Liberal Discourse in the US

The denition o a modern state within liberal discourse is understood to be the exi-stence o a system o law, equality, citizenship, and tolerance, and the constitutionalrights o its citizens. Racism and discrimination however, have been an undeniable parto the modern US and European state socio-political experience in the 20th century.The characteristics o todays modern states, according to the denition provided, ap-pear to be diluted in the example o modern European and US history. Nowhere is thisdynamic more obvious than in the case o the Jews and the so-called Jewish Questionin Germany, and in Europe more broadly between the years 1850 and 1933. At the time,Jews were integrated into German and European society possibly more than Germansrom poorer or more rural areas o the country. In act, there is possibly no other mino-rity ethnic or religious group that has been as integrated as the Jews were in Germanyduring at the time. Most o the Jewswere nancially well-of, better educated than thegeneral populace, spoke and wrote with greater uency, and were more articulate thanmany o the German populace. Some had even converted to Christianity, but were stillnot accepted by German Society. I we look at Muslims in the US prior to September

11, 2001, there was a relatively small population o Muslims in the US, and one thatwas not very visible or well integrated within the American social, political and econo-


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mic spheres. Ater the 1990s, there was a dramatic population growth rom increasedMuslim migration to the US. This in itsel made the Muslim population more apparent,in addition to September 11th. However, the expectation was that the American legalsystem and multicultural attitudes would be enough to protect Muslim immigrants and

citizens. The challenge o Muslim integration into American society today has thankul-ly been quite diferent than the challenge o integrating Blacks into American societyin the civil rights era and beyond. This is because the justice system today does playan important role protecting ethnic minorities rom direct discrimination and racism.On the other hand, Muslims in the US are now subject to a diferent type o discrimi-nation and exclusion, based on more insidious orms o social exclusion. In this paper, Iexamine the social, political and economic integration o Muslims in the US in the Post--September 11 era.

THE REvEREND DOCTOR ALI ABI ISSA Institute o the Study o Islam, Poland) The Idea and Foundations o the sustained Peace in Islamic Doctrine

The source texts o Quran and sunna emphasize that the perpetual peace can be in-stituted only i the undamental rights granted by God and enjoyed by all people arearmed. The undamental rights are acquired by an individual by virtue o his/her be-longing to the human species, so that every man by nature has a status o a dignied/noble being.Most scholars, basing their arguments on the source texts, maintain that the reasono granting human beings the elements o nobility is al-Fitra. Every human person isequipped with a nature that comes rom God. Each item included in the composition oal-Fitra has a divine origin. The meaning o the word al-Fitra is roughly related to the

original nature o man and his/her eatures which were given to him/her by God.The Islamic doctrine is to a certain extent similar to the ideas o some Sophists, e.g. Hip-pias 5/6 century BCE), who held that the natural law is grounded in the nature commonto all human beings.According to the Islamic doctrine all humans are equal by nature whereas all the di-erences which divide people into particular groups and communities are only a oun-dation necessary or the development o specic institutions, aculties and practicesthis is the meaning o the Quranic verse highlighting the multicultural aspect o Islamaccording to which God created human beings diferent so that they may know eachother and complement each others knowledge).Further in the paper the Islamic doctrine concerning diversity and otherness is beingexamined as well as its stance towards the idea o perpetual peace and situations whenthe conict and thus the cancellation o peace) is justied.


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Sacrum and Proanum

or PeaceTrumpet trio: Wojciech Liurej,Mateus Msyca, Tobias Tycka

The Oktoich Choir o St. Cyril and Methodius Ortho-dox church o Wroclaw was ounded in 1991. Theirrepertoire comprises hymns, liturgical chants togetherwith their score derived rom the Slavonic and the Byz-antine tradition, which are recorded on eight albumsthat have been released so ar. The Oktoich Choir hasperormed in as many as 800 concerts in Poland aswell as many reputed concert halls all over Europe, greeted by audiences in Moscow, London, Brus-sels, Budapest, Tbilisi, Chisinau, Bucharest, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Hanover and in France. The choir isa three-time winner o the International Festival o Orthodox Church Music organized in Hajnowka,Poland taking rst and second places in 1992, 1996 and 2006) and a winner o the International Festivalo the Art o the Deacon in Moscow special award in 1997). The choristers o the Oktoich were awardedby the Ministry o Culture and National Heritage o the Republic o Poland, Ministry o National Deenceand veterans associations with Gloria Artis Medal or Merit to Culture as well as Pro Memoria Medal. In2011 the choir is celebrating its 20th anniversary, the celebrations o which will culminate in a jubilee

concert on the 8th o December in the National Concert Hall in Warsaw. From the day o its establish-ment, the choir is led by the protodeacon Grzegorz Cebulski.

The Ensemble viridarium vocal group specializesin perorming a capella music o the 16th and early17th century. The group made its stage debut in2011 perorming a repertoire o the most amousEuropean madrigal composers. Its interests alsorevolve around Silesian artists. The group is com-posed o singers rom a number o artistic milieux inPoland, mainly solo artists and chamber musiciansknown also or their individual perormances. Thegroup is led by Agnieszka Drodewska, a singerand musicologist. Ensemble Viridarium will delightyou with sixteenth-century our and ve voice mad-rigals rom diferent countries. In these secular piec-es love is the dominant theme. In the Renaissance they were composed to entertain and amusethe audiences. In the selected pieces we may trace many shades o renaissance love; we will hearnot only the victorious love, as in the rst piece, but also the tones o passionate and unrequitedeeling. Some o the works will encourage us to join in playing and conviviality, other will extol thebeauty o the surrounding nature.

The Oktoich Choir

The Ensemble Viridarium


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The organizers

UNIvERSITY OF WROCLAWINSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY

The University o Wrocaw, established in 1702,is the second-oldest state university in Poland.Founded by Leopold I Habsburg the universityevolved rom a modest school run by Jesuitsinto one o the biggest academic institutionsin Poland. At the beginning o the 19th cen-tury the university had ve Faculties: Philoso-phy, Catholic Theology, Evangelical Theology,Law and Medicine. Later it was expanded bynumerous sections, laboratories and a naturalmuseum which exists until today.

Ater the Second World War a group o Polishproessors, ormerly rom Lvov, started teach-ing and research activities at the University oWrocaw. Initially they created the Faculties oLaw and Administration, Arts, Natural Sciences,Agriculture, Veterinary, Medicine, Mathematics,Physics and Chemistry. Some o these Facultieswere soon transormed into other universities.Since the beginning o the 20th century, theUniversity o Wrocaw produced 9 Nobel Prizewinners, such as Theodor Mommsen, Philipp Le-nard, Eduard Buchner, Paul Ehrlich, Fritz Haber,Friedrich Bergius, Erwin Schrdinger, Otto Sternand Max Born.

Today, the rst and oremost ocus o The Univer-sity o Wrocaw is scientic research. Our scholarshave numerous links with their ellow researchersrom other higher education institutions in Po-land and throughout the world. The University oWrocaw is the largest university in the region andteaches over 40,000 students and around 1,300

doctoral students at 10 aculties. 9,000 studentsgraduate rom the University every year.

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDYOF ISLAM

Institute or the Study o Islam serves as a orumor research and communication, whose pri-mary aim is to create prospects or scientic re-search and dialogue understood as: exchangeo ideas, communication and better mutualunderstanding, collective endeavors in carry-ing out specic projects aimed at developingpartners societies and meetings o scholars,leaders and representatives o culture.

Institute or the Study o Islam was oundedon the belie that there is a lack o Polish re-

search institution capable o diligent, unbiasedand proound acquiring, developing and pro-moting knowledge about the Muslim world- its history, achievements and problems. Aneven greater challenge is to enable Polish peo-ple to understand the Islam religion and sci-ence as one o the most important spiritual andintellectual traditions o humanity.

In practice, in Poland there is no researchcenter that would be able to perorm this task. Atthe same time, because o the growing interestin Islamic issues and its media-attractiveness pro-moted by the clash o the civilisations paradigmoten used by commentators and analysts opolitical and social lie), existing scientic institu-tions involved in language, literature and cultureo selected aspects o some Muslim countries) provide both: consumers o inormation aswell as opinion leaders in our country journal-ists, publicists, politicians, scientists rom otherdisciplines) with incomplete surveys, reviews and

descriptions o the Muslim world concerning cur-rent events in the international arena.


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