The Dialogue Institute hosted a celebratory event on January 27, 2017 marking Founder and President Leonard Swidler's 50th anniversary at Temple University and Temple's ground-breaking Department of Religion.

Dialogue Institute Founder/President, Leonard Swidler, and Executive Director, Rebecca Mays, spoke at the Fifth Songshan Forum on Chinese and Other World Civilizations, held October 27-30, 2016 in Dengfeng, Henan, China. They also both attended the first and third Forums, held in 2012 and 2014 respectively.

The Dialogue Institute hosted and facilitated a special full-day training on "Peace through Dialogue" for staff from the Global Peace Foundation in October. The customized training, focusing on dialogue, the "global ethic" and human rights, was designed to help GPF staff prepare for their upcoming Global Peace Convention 2017 in Manila, Philippines.

For the second straight year, the Dialogue Institute is partnering with Philadelphia-area Ten Thousand Villages stores for a unique local fundraiser on Thursday, December 8, 3-7 pm.

The DI's Leonard Swidler (Founder/President) and Rebecca Mays (Executive Director) have been invited to participate in the upcoming Fifth Session of the Centre of Heaven and Earth (Songshan) Forum on Chinese and World Civilizations, to be held October 27-30, 2016 in Dengfeng, Henan, China.

With mixed emotions, Dialogue Institute staff bid farewell to Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) program alumnus-turned-associate, Abdalla Aljubori, as he begins a two-year post-baccalaureate pre-medical program at the University of Washington in St. Louis.

The DI is participating in Peace Day Philly 2016 with a free dialogue workshop on September 20, Dialogue Across Difference: Skills for Peacemaking and Global Citizenship, as well as a special co-hosted community event on September 18, An Interfaith Peace Dialogue: Welcoming Each Other Across Diverse Cultures & Faiths.

Twenty young adult students from Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey completed the Dialogue Institute's 12th Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) for Student Leaders on Religious Pluralism in the United States on August 13th. They join an extraordinary group of more than 220 other young alumni/ae from the Middle East and Southeast Asia who have participated in the DI's SUSI program since 2010.

The Spring 2016 issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies features a special section on Islamophobia. The content is inspired by and drawn from a national Conference on Religious Freedom and Islamophobia which the Dialogue Institute hosted and co-sponsored, along with the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy and Peace Catalyst International, in October of 2015.