Bahá'í Chair for World Peace

In African American Legacies: Remembering Resilient Communities, Robert O'Meally shares how strong community networks shaped resilience, belonging, and opportunity.

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In Education as the Great Equalizer (2024), Dr. Jennifer King Rice explores how access to education can open doors to opportunity while advancing equity and justice.

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Human rights are more than policies and declarations.

They are lived every day by people who continue to choose hope, dignity, and care despite unimaginable obstacles.

Dr. Hoda Mahmoudi explores how Iranian women embody the ethics of care and why their struggle challenges all of us to think differently about justice.

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In African American Legacies: Remembering Resilient Communities, Brenda Bass reflects on the childhood moments that took on new meaning through the lens of history, revealing how segregation shaped everyday life.

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Professor Yohuru Williams invites us to examine the historical roots of racial inequality and consider how understanding the past can help shape a more equitable future.

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In African American Legacies: Remembering Resilient Communities, Wilbur Wright reflects on family, legacy, and the journeys that shaped his community.

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What if the greatest challenge isn't that inequality is increasing, but that it has become normalized? Professor Ingrid Robeyns examines why confronting inequality is essential to creating a more just world.

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In “Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers,” Professors Larrauri and Morrison explore how digital technologies shape communication, data, identity, and the ways conflict unfolds. Their work makes the case that digital peacebuilding can no longer be treated as an add-on. It must be considered essential to building a more peaceful world.

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In African American Legacies: Remembering Resilient Communities, Judy Belk reflects on how segregation shaped Black neighborhoods and the lives, connections, and experiences within them.

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In Experiencing Men’s World (2022), Professor Manon Garcia explores how moving beyond patriarchy requires more than equality. It calls for rethinking the values we prioritize, from individualism and self-interest to care, connection, and our responsibility to one another.

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