Description

The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding works to promote interreligious education and dialogue, and to reduce and prevent violence perpetuated in the name of religion. The Center’s Peacemakers in Action initiative identifies and studies the work of relatively unknown, religiously motivated peacemakers.  The Center’s two volumes, Peacemakers in Action , have been widely used as texts in universities and seminaries.  The second volume was supported by an HRLI grant in 2010 ($100,000). In 2015 and 2017 discretionary HRLI grants supported a dissemination plan for the second book, the production of a policy paper building on insights in both volumes, and a launch event in Washington, DC. 
 
To widen the reach of this work, Tanenbaum plans to create a podcast series of five episodes, focusing on two peacemakers.  The series is intended to reach not only scholars, but also practitioners and diplomats.  This effort is inspired in part by a productive relationship established with the U.S. State Department as a result of the policy paper launch, and more broadly by the growing popularity of podcasts, as people increasingly consume information through digital, hand-held devices.