A conference next month featuring speakers from around the world will hear Muslim perspectives on peace and reconciliation in Palestine.

Based on the Convivencia Declaration issued last year, the conference seeks to explore the ways that a shared political community can be created in the occupied country.

The Convivencia Declaration rejects current militarised ‘solutions’ based on racist oppression, brute force, denial of rights and colonial dispossession for an approach predicated on shared values and commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The conference will hear from Imam Dawud Walid, the Executive Director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) and member of the Imams Council of Michigan. He is also the author of the books Towards Sacred Activism, Blackness and Islam, and Futuwwah and Raising Males Into Sacred Manhood.

Another imam, Rashied Omar, will also be speaking. Hailing from South Africa, Imam Omar is associate teaching professor of Islamic studies and peacebuilding in the Keough School’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.

Other speakers include the Malaysian Islamic scholar Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid, president of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisation. Massoud Shadjareh, chair of the UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission and Norma Hashim, treasurer of Viva Palestina Malaysia, an NGO focussed on raising awareness of the conflict in Palestine and providing relief to Palestinians,

The conference will be held on Tues 8 October at 3pm BST in London at the P21 Gallery, Chalton Street, NW1 1JD.

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