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Welcome to Fall Semester 2021!

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Welcome to Fall Semester 2021!

The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace welcomes everyone back to Fall Semester 2021. We want to welcome all new and returning students back to campus and to wish you all a safe, happy, and healthy semester.

We are hopeful that as things start to reopen we will be able to hold in person events again. However, for the moment, all of our events  will be held online only as we continue to operate in a time of uncertainty. We are committed to ensuring the safety of our wider community and holding our events in a virtual format allows us to do this. 

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Upcoming Virtual Event: The Colors of COVID-19: Confronting Health Disparities During a Global Pandemic

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Upcoming Virtual Event: The Colors of COVID-19: Confronting Health Disparities During a Global Pandemic

February 16, 2021

2pm – 3.30pm

Virtual – Register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/bahai-colors (link is external)

Professor Stephen B. Thomas, Professor, Health Policy and Management and Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity

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Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in history, the world has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the same, yet unrealized, promises of medical science. In a matter of months, human civilization has been brought low by the novel SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), a microscopic parasite 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. COVID-19 attacks our physical bodies, but also the cultural foundations of our lives. Depending upon how we respond, our lives, and literally our way of life, hangs in the balance. Continue reading

Welcome to Spring Semester 2021

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Welcome to Spring Semester 2021

The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace welcomes everyone back to Spring Semester 2021. While we are still living through challenging times, progress is being made and we are hopeful that we can see each other soon.

All of our events this semester will be held online only as we continue to operate in a time of uncertainty. We are committed to ensuring the safety of our wider community and holding our events in a virtual format allows us to do this.  Continue reading

Upcoming Virtual Event – Syrian Refugees in the Middle East and in Europe: On the Psychology of a Humanitarian Challenge

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Upcoming Virtual Event – Syrian Refugees in the Middle East and in Europe: On the Psychology of a Humanitarian Challenge

January 12, 2021

11 AM -12:30PM EST 

 Virtual Event

Registration Link https://tinyurl.com/bahai-syrian

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This presentation is based on unprecedented empirical research into the psychology of Syrian refugees in the Middle East and in Europe, carried out by an international  team of researchers headed up by Professor Arie Kruglanski of the University of Maryland. The research supported by the MINERVA program at the US Department of Defense bears on questions such as refugees’ motivations, their state of mind and feelings as function of the welcome they receive in the host countries. The research looks at the interlocking views of refugees and local populations, how these are affected by cultural differences, and the conditions under which refugees are likely to integrate successful into host society as opposed to remaining an alienated minority. In light of the growing refugee problem worldwide (70 million displaced persons as of this writing)  that is threatening to worsen as function of international conflicts and climate change, this research offers a rare empirically based window into the refugees’ psyche and its implications for world societies. Continue reading