Commemoration event Archbishop Desmond Tutu (online)
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
, 4pm
Online
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The Burden of the Postcolony: Illusions of Peace and the Endemic Conditions of Violence in Central Africa
Dr Suzzane Francis, Associate Professor, Programme Leader - International Relations, Leader of the Decolonising Education Working Group, University of Chester. TAU Fellow ELTASA, Honorary Associate Professor UKZN.
Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu: The Global Icon for Liberation, Justice, Peace and Devotion to the Planet
Dr. Sandile S. Ndlungwane, President of Hope of Africa Institute.
Sandile Ndlungwane has been a human rights and political activist since 1979. He was sixteen years old when he resolved to pursue the courage of his conviction by participating in causes that would bring about national liberation and socio-economic reconstruction and development. As a consequence of his indomitable spirit and burning desire to witness the birth of a non -racial South Africa, he was elected into various national formations. In 1991 he had a rare privilege and
opportunity to render support to leadership giants like former Pres. Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu etc.
Faith in politics: The legacy of Desmond Tutu for Israel/Palestine
Revd Dr Yazid Said, Lecturer in Islam, Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University.
Dr. Yazid Said is Lecturer in Islam. He studied Classical Arabic and English Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Christian theology at the University of Cambridge. After being ordained an Anglican priest, he completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge (2010) on the medieval Muslim theologian Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111). He subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship (2010-2011) at McGill University in Canada and the Woods-Gumble fellowship at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem (2011-2012). From February 2013-December 2014, he was Lecturer in Islamic studies at the Mater Dei Institute of Education in Dublin. He became a research fellow at the Centre for Islamic Theology in the University of Tuebingen in Germany (2015-2016). His research is focused on medieval Muslim political and legal thought and on Christian-Muslim theological encounters, with reference to the manner in which Greek philosophical thought was appropriated in both Christian and Muslim texts. He is the author of Ghazali's Politics in Context (Routledge 2012), which was re-launched in paperback in 2017. He is the co-editor of The Future of Interfaith Dialogue: Muslim-Christian Encounters through A Common Word (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
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