CIT Senior Mediator, Nathalie Al-Zyoud, was selected to participate in a year-long course related to interreligious dialogue, coexistence and pluralism attended by religious leaders from around the world.

In all, 23 fellows from 4 continents, 17 different countries and from 7 different religious affiliations participated.

August 25, 2018 - Conflict between Anti-Balaka militias and former Selekas in Bornou, a neighborhood near the city center of Bria, northwestern CAR, sends the population into panic and provokes another wave of displacements. Hundreds of Christian families take cover in the IDP camp and others at the local Baptist church (CEBI C3) fleeing the violence.

A violent couple of hours interrupts once again the day in the Muslim ghetto of Pk5, a neighborhood of Bangui. Once known as the economic lungs of CAR’s capital city, Pk5 became a segregated religious enclave where Muslims withdrew to find safety from their Christian neighbors after repeated clashes between the two communities tore through CAR’s social fabric.

Dangerous speech rose and spread at alarming rates in the United States since the 2016 election, targeting marginalized racial, ethnic and religious communities, immigrants, undocumented persons, refugees, LGBTQIA+, and persons with disabilities.

Nathalie Al-Zyoud led a session on shifting power dynamics for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy during EPIP's annual conference in Detroit, Michigan.

Power, in the field of conflict resolution, is defined as the ability to bring about a preferred outcome. Traditional leadership has typically relied on directive strategies to manage employees, fearing that shared decision-making risks a loss of one’s chosen solution.