PROGRESS REPORT 2013 – 2015 INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE CENTRE www.kaiciid.org Impressum International Dialogue Centre - KAICIID King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue Schottenring 21 A-1010 Vienna Austria Telephone: +43 1 313 22-0 E-mail:
[email protected] www.kaiciid.org © KAICIID 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD 4 UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION 10 SOCIAL COHESION INITIATIVES IN IRAQ/SYRIA 14 PROJECTS WITH UNDP/IRAQ 24 SOCIAL COHESION INITIATIVES IN NIGERIA 25 SOCIAL COHESION INITIATIVES IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (CAR) 28 SOCIAL COHESION INITIATIVES IN MYANMAR 31 THE NETWORK FOR RELIGIOUS AND TRADITIONAL PEACEMAKERS 32 SUPPORTING DIALOGUE GLOBALLY 36 PEACE MAPPING PROGRAMME 36 FELLOWS PROGRAMME 40 MULTIRELIGIOUS COLLABORATION FOR THE COMMON GOOD 42 INCORPORATING DIALOGUE INTO THE SCOUTS MOVEMENT 43 DIALOGUE BEYOND DIALOGUE 44 TALKING DIALOGUE 44 DIALOGUE DAYS 46 CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTION OR CO-ORGANIZATION 47 2 IMAGE OF THE OTHER: MEDIA 51 IMAGE OF THE OTHER: EDUCATION 54 KAICIID ONLINE COURSE ON INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE (KOCID) 56 ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 57 AUSTRIAN OUTREACH 60 HIGH-LEVEL PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS/ BILATERAL MEETINGS 64 INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION 67 IN THE FACE OF CONFLICT 68 VIENNA DECLARATION 70 EUROPEAN MEDIA FORUM 77 ATHENS DECLARATION 82 3 FOREWORD KAICIID Secretary General Faisal Bin Muaammar, November 2015 From its inauguration as an intergovernmental organization in November 2012, the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) has grown from a pioneering experiment to an internationally recognized partner for UN agencies, national governments and internationally active religious and interreligious organizations. Initially the Centre pursued a strategy of combating prejudice and rectifying misperceptions about the “Other”, about religions and their followers.