Najeeba is the Assistant Professor of Interreligious Education at Claremont School of Theology and Director of the Center for Global Peacebuilding. She earned her B.S. at Guilford College and her J.D. at Indiana University's School of Law. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the Jon Anson Ford Award (2001, 2007) and California Mediation Association's “Peacemaker of the Year” (2007). She serves as an advisor to local and federal agencies on interfaith dialogue, cooperation and public engagement, and youth conflict resolution. Her research focuses on mediation between law enforcement and communities, intersections of law with religious minority communities, interfaith just peacemaking.
“Women’s issues” are often claimed to be the wedge or problematic concern in interfaith dialogues. My interest in this blog is to have us think more deeply about the interfaith space itself, whether it is the academic or community one in which we work and research. Moreover, how do feminisms inform the construction of this […]