Current Projects :

Fellowships

Between 2005 and 2007, Salam Institute gave seven fellowships for research focused on Islamic sources of peace-building and conflict resolution.  The recipients of the fellowship included junior researchers and practitioners who utilized the funds to facilitate and promote further discourse and exploration of training manuals for peace and conflict resolution in the Islamic context.  Some of the themes included: Sources of peace-building and nonviolence in Islam; Status and challenges facing Muslim communities in the United States.

Iran Program – Fostering Relationship through Discussion on Islamic Sources of Peace and Nonviolence

Following an initial trip to Iran in October of 2007, where scholars from Salam Institute for Peace and Justice and The United States Institute for Peace (USIP) met with Iranian Scholars to discuss peace, conflict resolution, and theoretical and practical approaches to peacemaking, it was decided that the continuation of such dialogue between scholars was needed. Believing that continued scholarly exchange will contribute to research, publication, and significant future exchanges on the important subject of Muslim approaches to peace and non-violence, upon return to the United States the idea of a second exchange, this time of Iranian Scholars to the U.S. , was developed (Phase Two of the program). Junior level scholars were then identified with the assistance of our partner contacts in Iran and a 15-person contingent of Iranians visited the United States in May 2008.

Past Projects :

Conflict Transformation Project, Fuller Theological Seminary

In partnership with Fuller Theological Seminary, the Salam Institute has sought to engage the full spectrum of views and opinions held by American Muslims on dialogue with Evangelicals by reaching out to different members of the community living in the United States. Toward this aim, the Salam Institute has entered into a collaborative partnership with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Graduate School of Islamic Social Sciences (GSISS), and the Mohamed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American University.

Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands

As part of its capacity-building initiatives in the Muslim world which explore, develop, and utilize Muslim resources for peace-building and conflict resolution, the Salam Institute partnered with the Conflict Resolution Unit of Clingendael Institute and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct a large-scale and comprehensive analysis of key Islamic actors in Africa and the Balkans.

Muslim Peacebuilding Network

The Salam Institute is currently working on compiling a comprehensive database of actors and organizations in the United States and around the world who are actively engaged in Islamic approaches and methods of peacebuilding, development, nonviolence, peaceful inter-religious and intra-religious coexistence, and conflict resolution and transformation. This database is intended to become a resource for scholarship and activists in the field, for networking and support, and for providing and making known alternative approaches and activities related to the many complex challenges confronting civil societies and communities around the world today.