SUMMARY
The "Dialogue and Best Practice International Forum 2017" will take place on November 3, 2017 at Notre Dame University - Louaize (NDU), Lebanon.
Through its plenary session and two panels, the Forum will highlight best practices in dialogue, peace-building, reconciliation, freedom, tolerance, etc., using cases from around the world and Lebanon.
This Forum provides a platform to emphasize that dialogue is the most natural way to resolve disputes, whether such disputes are in- or cross-country.
Three important ways will distinguish the Forum from other initiatives:
• It is organized to demonstrate that Lebanon can play the role that LDI is working to achieve, which is to make Lebanon the land for dialogue among civilizations and cultures;
• It is organized in partnership with local and international organizations that pull their own weight in dialogue, the role of youth, and the role of the corporate sector in bringing about developmental interventions for the benefit of social justice; and
• It rallies the support of local religious, faith, and ethnic networks in Lebanon, as a proof of the nation’s historic experience in conviviality.
Objectives of the Second Annual Forum
The 2017 Forum will address through a case study best practices in dialogue, peacebuilding, reconciliation, and conviviality by inviting two disputing parties that have resolved or are in the process of dialoguing toward peacefully resolving their differences.
Participants will be high-level officials who have been involved, or are currently involved, in dialogue. In attendance will be officials, diplomats, civil society, international, regional, and local organizations, faith-based organizations, analysts, journalists, professors, students, and the public.
The Forum will highlight the case study’s historical, geographical, and dialogue trajectory from the perspectives of two parties who will contribute to our
understanding of war and peace, and serve to promote dialogue as a peaceful method to resolving disputes.
Taking Lebanon as a model, the 2017 Forum will also address best practices in freedom of religion. The session’s purpose is to show that although the Lebanese constitution does not to date officially recognize these religions, practitioners of those faiths may assemble for worship without government limitation or interference.
Speeches delivered by well-renowned figures will set the tone for the Plenary session, which will include a keynote speaker, representing the Forum’s strategic partner... more
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