The sixth annual conference of the Iranian Peace Studies Scientific Association (IPSAN)
Religions and Peacebuilding in the Third Millennium, Capacities and Challenges

The peace-building processes worldwide are suffering numerous challenges, including terrorism, fundamentalism, environmental problems, ethnic, religious, identity, and gender tensions, migration, and several other challenges, all threatening security and peace in societies and exerting a far-reaching impact on the lives of the people worldwide.As significant sources that guide societies towards prosperity, world religions have long played a key role in providing their followers with the pathways to achieving peace. Therefore, it seems that theologians’ and religious thinkers’ intellectual synergies to find common mechanisrns and their efforts for designing collective programmes to achieve global peace can, on the one hand, be a good ground for communities. peaceful coexistence at the regional and international levels and pave the way for the formulation of common solutions to global threats and insecurities, on the other hand. Therefore, the IPSAN, as a pioneering association which has tried to contribute to the development of peace through facilitating dialogue among religious scholars and intellectual elites from different religions, is planning to convene i. sixth annual conference on “Religions a. Peace-building in the Third Millennium: Capacities and Challenges” on 18 and 19 January 2023 in collaboration with scientific institutions around the world and with the presence of intellectuals and academia from different countries.The conference aims to develop scientific literature on the topic of religions’ approach toward lasting peace, invite theologians and religious thinkers to reflect on peace and non-peace in today’s world, establish acquaintance and communication between religious-studies scholars in different countries, and find solutions for peace-making in today’s societies based on religious teachings.

Secretariat’s Email Address: peace.conf2023@gmail.com

Guide for writing abstracts and full papers: ipsan.ir/conf1401