Youth Engagement with Religion and Faith in the 21st Century

About this Project:

Religions for Peace has a long-standing and deeply rooted commitment to engagement of youth communities and leaders in its interreligious work. The summary report below reflects a project to seek youth inputs on critical global agenda issues, notably peace, environmental matters, and humanitarian action. The continuing partnership involved a call for papers on these topics, presented at a symposium in July 2021. This report draws on the symposium discussion and the background papers. The World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) worked with Religions for Peace to highlight the vital insights that emerged from this dialogue process.

Also below are twenty-two papers prepared by the youth authors who took part in the symposium in July. Each listed by their last name, their innovative voices reach deeply into our hearts and minds.

Religions for Peace, in partnership with –

• The Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF)
• The World Faith’s Development Dialogue (WFFD)
• The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University
• The Office of Religious Life at Princeton University
• Mahidol University Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• The Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC)
• The International Islamic Fiqh Academy (IIFA)
• The Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA)
• University of Santo Tomas –

is proud to present this relevant and inspiring work.

Read the summary paper on Youth Engagement with Religion and Faith in the 21st Century

Abhulimen, Jude Oluwamuyiwa | Andrian, RR. Manda | Athman, Arshad and Mohamud, Burhanudin | Bizin, Luciano Ezequiel | Chousein, Eda Molla; Pierau, Finn; Plummer, Lucy | Fahmy, Nahla Mohamed

Frljak, Emina | Hairi, Nur Atika | Hussain, Nishat Gurmani | Jano, Sheldiana | Khalil, Melody Amal | Khan, Sakif Al Ehsan

Macondzo, Martin | Muttaqien, Ghazi Abdullah and Muttaqien, Husein Zaenal | Niramittham, Krit | Odhiambo, John Kennedy | PK, Sadique | Prihatin, Muhammat Sabar

Ravat, Riaz | Rishad, Shameer | Siddiqi, Hira A | Ullah, Md. Ridwan