Peacebuilding through Education Conference - Highlights

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The Fountain magazine and the Peace Islands Institute organized "Peacebuilding through Education: Challenges, Opportunities, Cases" conference on September 24, 2012, in New York. This video is a brief footage of highlights from the event. Gulen-inspired schools and Gulen movement educational initiatives were discussed by education ministers and intellectuals some of whom traveled from around the world.

Below you may find an excerpt of Fethullah Gulen's message to the conference:

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Fethullah Gulen inspired the Rumi Forum

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"Be so accepting that your heart becomes wide like the ocean.

Become inspired with faith and love for others.

Offer a hand to those in need, and be concerned about everyone."

Fethullah Gulen - Honorary President, Rumi Forum

Rumi Forum was founded in 1999 with the mission to foster interfaith and intercultural dialogue, stimulate thinking and exchange of opinions on supporting and fostering democracy and peace all over the world and to provide a common platform for education and information exchange.

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Gulen Movement in Philippines: Filipino - Turkish Tolerance Schools in Zamboanga

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Harmony, tolerance stem from Turkish schools

Most children of the picturesque city of Zamboanga in the Philippines’ troubled south are groomed to be cautious in making friends believing in a different religions.

Zamboanga Peninsula, the sixth most populous region and the third geographically largest in the Philippines, is home to 70 per cent Christians and 30% percent Buddhist and Muslim people.

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About Peace Islands Institute

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"Accept everyone who they are"
"Have a chair for everyone in our heart"

"Open your heart so wide like the ocean,
Become inspired with faith and love for others,
Offer a hand to those in trouble and be concerned about everyone."

These virtue quotes are from the Honorable Fethullah Gulen, Peace Islands Institute's source of inspiration and Honorary President, the recipient of the EastWest Institute 2011 Peace Award, 2008 Forbes Magazine's Top Intellectual, writer of over 60 books, and inspiration for millions of people from different walks of life.

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Abant Platform's contributions to societal wellbeing

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The Abant Platform was established on the premise that dogmatic biases dominant for a long time in Turkish political life are foremost permanent obstacles hindering democratic development. If the irrevocable basic principle of democracy is “differences being in dialogue,” then the strengthening of democracy with the realization of dialogue is the reality that defines the Abant Platform.

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Fethullah Gulen Chair in the Study of Islam and Muslim-Catholic Relations

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Fethullah Gulen Chair in the Study of Islam and Muslim-Catholic Relations was launched on November 2007 at the Australian Catholic University at Melbourne. An inaugural international conference titled From Dialogue to Collaboration: The Vision of Fethullah Gulen and Muslim-Christian Relations was held on July 15-16, 2009.

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Islam = Peace

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A brief documentary that covers the 7/7 attacks in England, and the true teachings of Islam. The video also discusses how education might be a remedy for such unacceptable acts.

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Fethullah Gulen - Advocate of Dialogue

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Fethullah Gulen and his perspectives on interfaith dialogue…

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Gulen Movement schools serve as "Peace Islands" worldwide

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Gulen Movement schools serve as "Peace Islands" worldwide, bringing together students from different religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

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Fethullah Gulen and interfaith dialogue

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Fethullah Gulen and Pope John, II

Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish Muslim scholar, thinker, author, poet, opinion leader, educational activist, and preacher emeritus. He is regarded as the initiator and inspirer of the worldwide social movement of human values known as the Hizmet (Service) Movement. Focused on education where secular curricula are taught by teachers who aspire to "represent" high values of humanity, this social phenomenon defeats easy categorization. Volunteer participants in the movement, consisting of students, academicians, business owners, professionals, public officials, white-collar and blue-collar workers, farmers, men and women, young and old, contribute to multiple ways of service, which crystallize in tutoring centers, schools, colleges, hospitals, a major relief organization, publishing houses, and media institutions, both in Turkey and in more than a hundred countries of the world.

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About Fethullah Gulen

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Another video on Fethullah Gulen:

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Fethullah Gulen's Ideals & Gulen Movement's Mission - An overview

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Fethullah Gulen is an authoritative mainstream Turkish Muslim scholar, thinker, author, poet, opinion leader and educational activist who supports interfaith and intercultural dialogue, science, democracy and spirituality and opposes violence and turning religion into a political ideology. Fethullah Gülen promotes cooperation of civilizations toward a peaceful world, as opposed to a clash:

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Who is Fethullah Gulen?

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Mr. Fethullah Gülen is known and respected among Turkish Muslims as well as Muslims from around the world as an authoritative mainstream Muslim scholar of the Sunni tradition, to which 87–90% of the world’s Muslim population belongs. He is also a thinker, a poet, a prolific author, an educational activist and an opinion leader. His readership in Turkey is estimated at several million. His influence outside Turkey is growing daily as his works are translated into many languages including English, Arabic, Russian, German, Spanish, Urdu, Bosnian, Albanian, Malay and Indonesian. In addition to printed publications, his ideas are accessible to an ever increasing world population through private radio and television networks sympathetic to his views.

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Fethullah Gulen - EastWest Institute's 2011 Peacebuilding Award - Background

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Fethullah Gülen, well-respected Turkish intellectual and scholar, was named for the The EastWest Institute's (EWI) 2011 Peace Building Award at an awards dinner held in New York on 10 May 2011, Tuesday for his contribution to world peace.

Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV) President Mustafa Yeşil received the prestigious award on behalf of Gülen. In a message he sent to the ceremony, Gülen said he accepted the award not on behalf of himself but on behalf of numerous volunteers, among whom he sees himself.

Gülen is a Turkish Islamic scholar well known for his teachings promoting mutual understanding and tolerance between cultures. One of the world's most influential Islamic scholars, Gülen came out at the top of the list of “The World's Top 20 Public Intellectuals” by the magazines Foreign Policy and Prospect in 2008. Now residing in the US, Gülen has pioneered educational activities in a number of countries along with efforts to promote intercultural and interfaith activities around the world. He has written nearly 50 books in Turkish, some of them translated into several languages.

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