Lejla Hasandedic-Dapo
United Religions Initiative (URI) Europe Liaison Officer, board member of European Interfaith Youth Network (EIYN), Religions for Peace
Bishop Margot Kässmann was born 1958 and studied theology in Tübingen, Edinburgh, Göttingen and Marburg. In 1985, she was ordained, and she graduated in 1989 from the Ruhr-University Bochum.
After working as a pastor and later Secretary General of the German Protestant Kirchentag, she was, from 1999 to 2010, state bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. In 2002, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hannover. From 2009 to 2010, she was chairwoman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). From August to December 2010, she was a visiting professor at Emory University in Atlanta (USA). In the period from January 2011 to March 2012, she taught and conducted research as a visiting professor for ecumenism and social ethics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Max Imdahl Visiting Professorship). From April 2012 to June 2018, she served as Ambassador of the EKD Council for the Reformation Jubilee 2017.
Margot Kässmann has been retired since July 2018 and is primarily devoted to the writing of books. In addition, she is involved in selected projects such as the international children’s aid organization Terre des hommes, the German Foundation for the World Population, or the social street magazine Asphalt. Since April 2019, Margot Kässmann publishes the monthly magazine Mitten im Leben.
United Religions Initiative (URI) Europe Liaison Officer, board member of European Interfaith Youth Network (EIYN), Religions for Peace
Member executive board, Religions for Peace Italy
Chairperson, RfP European Women of Faith Network
Community Engagement Senior Coordinator, Adyan Foundation
Deputy Coordinator, International Youth Committee
Junior Researcher, Hartford Seminary-Interreligious Relations
Member, International Youth Committee
Archbishop of Abuja, Archdiocese of Abuja
Honorary President, Religions for Peace
Youth Representative, Ghana Conference of Religions for Peace
Member, International Youth Committee
Founding Director and President, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Germany
President, Divine Shakti Foundation
Secretary-General, Global Interfaith WASH Alliance
Professor of Islamic Studies and Education, George-August University Göttingen
Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
Director for Cultural Relations Policy and Deputy Head of the Directorate-General for Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office
Chief of Cabinet and Spokesperson to the High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC)
Director, Argao Center for Psychological Services
Coordinator, Religions for Peace International Youth Committee
President, Kina8at Together
Elder from the Anicinape (Algonquin) tradition
Metropolitan of France, Ecumenical Patriarchate Religions for Peace
Professor of Spiritual Care at the Graduate School of Applied Religious Studies
Chairmanship of the Foundation Peace Dialogue of the World Religions and Civil Society
Inter-Religious Council of Peru – Religions for Peace, Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
Bishop Emeritus President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
Honorary President, Religions for Peace
Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College
Co-President, Religions for Peace
UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
Homer G. Angelo & Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair & Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis
School of Law
International Director, Department of Interreligious Affairs in the American Jewish Committee
Co-President, Religions for Peace
Representative of Thailand to the ASEAN Women of Peace Registry; Human Rights and Peace Studies, Faculty, Mahidol University; Secretary-General, Religions for Peace Interreligious Council of Thailand; Member, RfP International Women’s Coordinating Committee
Journalist, Filmmaker, War Reporter, Human Rights Activist,
Founder, Hawar Help and German Dream
Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala Primate of the Church of Sweden
Co-Presiden, Religions for Peace
Former Chairperson, Evangelical Church of Germany
Co-President, Religions for Peace
Nun of the Daughters of Mother Mary of Mercy; Co-Chair Nigerian & African Women of Faith Network
Executive Director Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP)
Chair, Religions for Peace International Women’s Coordinating Committee
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Minister of State for International Cultural Policy at the Foreign Office, Germany
President-Designate, Rissho Kosei-Kai, Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace, Buddhist, Japan