The Dialogue Institute is hosting another cohort of 20 young adult students from the Middle East, July 9-August 13, 2016, as part of its 12th Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) for Student Leaders on Religious Pluralism.

The Dialogue Institute/Journal of Ecumenical Studies is co-sponsoring two major international, interfaith conferences this spring and summer—one in Rochester, New York (May 23-25) and the other in Philadelphia (July 10-13).

The North American Academy of Ecumenists (NAAE), with which the Journal of Ecumenical Studies is affiliated, announces The 2016 Student Prize / The Brother Jeffrey Gros Memorial Fund for current undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in Christian unity.

The Dialogue Institute, along with the Temple University Departments of History and Religion, is sponsoring a teach-in at Temple focused on Lebanon's uprising, its socio-political impact and the ensuing rise of grassroots journalism, on March 17, 2-3:30 pm.

The Dialogue Institute is hosting a free lecture and discussion with Dr. Ziad Fahed, “Fostering Youth Resilience to Counteract Extremism: Grassroots Experience from Philadelphia to Lebanon,” on Thursday, March 17, 4-5:30 pm, at Temple University.

The Dialogue Institute is co-sponsoring a special performance of "In Between," a one-man show that portrays the complexities inherent in Israeli-Palestinian identity, on April 9, 2016, 8:15-10:30 pm, at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia.

Dialogue Institute Founder and President, Leonard Swidler, and Executive Director, Rebecca Mays, will be in the Philippines, February 29-March 1, 2016, to join the second gathering of the recently formed Asia Interreligious Development Network.

The Dialogue Institute has been named one of three organizational winners of the 3rd Doha International Award for Interfaith Dialogue 2016. The award, which came with a $15,000 prize, is presented annually by the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue to honor and appreciate prominent, productive and creative individuals and organizations for their work in the field of interreligious/interfaith dialogue.

The Dialogue Institute concluded its Winter 2016 Institute on Religious Pluralism on February 13, with a final session in Washington, D.C. Twenty students from the Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand) returned to their home countries following an intensive five-week program focused on religious pluralism and democracy in the United States—including four weeks in Philadelphia and a nine-day study tour in Arizona and Washington, D.C.

The Dialogue Institute is inviting the general public to any of two upcoming events related to its Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative program on religious pluralism, which concludes February 13. Twenty students from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand have been in Philadelphia since January 9 for the five-week program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.