by Jonathan Bach | Jul 15, 2021 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
I have never scrambled in the dirt for food in a refugee camp. I’ve never wished for the coast while looking over the prow of an overcrowded boat on the Mediterranean. Nor have I hunkered down in a crumbling Ukrainian apartment complex, hoping the next bomb doesn’t...
by bbanna | Jul 6, 2021 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
“At the height of the second major Palestinian uprising, or intifada, against the Israeli occupation in 2002, the two men helped organize a major meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, including rabbis, imams and Christian clerics. It resulted in a joint declaration from...
by emrakebw | Jun 23, 2021 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
Professor David Markowitz talks with Crossings Institute co-Director Peter Laufer in this episode of “Real News: Where is it?” The two explore theories of Truth Default and Plausibility, studies that can help news consumers best navigate news sources...
by emrakebw | Jun 18, 2021 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
Welcome to the UO-UNESCO Crossings Institute chats with University of Oregon professors whose research deals with how news consumers can best navigate news sources during an era of increasing propaganda fueled by technologies that can shroud fraud. Professor Peter...
by bbanna | Jan 28, 2021 | Crossings Radio and Crossings News
How can interfaith encounters both engage aligned groups and reach across deep divides? Professor Steven Shankman registered to embark on a weeklong exploration of truth and difference, allyship, and the ways in which faith engenders connections with others, even...
by bbanna | Nov 7, 2020 | Food for Thought, Intercultural and Interreligious Conflict, News, Stories
The following is a deeply reflective piece conveying a message of hope and resistance to other Covid 19 patients from Dr. Hassan Nadhem, UNESCO Chair on the Development of Inter-religious Dialogue Studies in the Islamic World, based at the University of Kufa. Dr....