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DAY 1

Friday, September 11

From 5:00 to 8:00pm

Altschul Auditorium, International Affairs Building
420 W 118th St, New York, NY 10027

Opening session

Time slot	Activity
5:00-6:00pm	Cultural Ceremony
	Live Sufi Music Performance
	Viewing of The International Exhibition of Muslim Nonviolence: Cheikh A. Bamba - A Muslim Peacemaker by Majalis
	Viewing of Art exhibit on Senegalese Sufi Calligraphy by Yelimane Fall
6:00-6:15pm	Opening Remarks
	Prof. Mamadou Diouf (Institute of African Studies of Columbia University)
	Prof. Karen Barkey (Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life of Columbia University)
	Abdoul Aziz Mbacké (President of Majalis)
6:15-8:00pm	Film screening
	Screening of TOUBA (Running time 1h 23m - www.toubafilm.com)
	Questions/Answers session with the film producer Chai Vasarhelyi

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DAY 2

Saturday, September 12

From 8:30am to 6:00pm
Kellogg Center, 15th Floor, International Affairs Building
420 W 118th St, New York, NY 10027

Panels 1, 2 & 3

Time slot	Activity
8:30-9:00am	Breakfast and Check-In (Lobby)
9:00-11:00am	PANEL 1 Violence & Non-Violence in Sufism – Part 1 International Affairs Building, Room 1501
	Presenters Fallou Ngom, Boston University (Boston, MA, USA) Associate Professor and Director of the African Language Program Paper: Sanctified Suffering: The Response to Violence in Murid Ajami Poetry     Mbaye Bashir Lo, Duke University (Durham, NC, USA) Assistant Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Paper: Jihad as a Peace Tradition in the Writings of Cheikh Moussa Kamara     Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI, USA) Associate Professor Paper: On Being “Sushi” in Senegal: The Peaceful Merging of Sufi and Reformist Shi‘i Islamic Traditions     Eric Ross, Al Akhawayn University (Ifrane, Morocco) Associate Professor Paper: Turning my back to this world in order to dominate it: Institutional autonomy and nonviolence from Al-Hâjj Sâlim Suware to Cheikh Ahmadu Bamba Mbacké Moderator Abdoul Aziz Mbacke, Majalis (Senegal) President of Majalis (African Muslim Heritage) and Murid scholar
11:00-11:30am	Coffee break
11:30am-1:30pm	PANEL 2 Violence & Non-Violence in Sufism - Part 2 International Affairs Building, Room 1501
	Presenters Aref Ali Nayed (Libya) Libyan Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and the Founder and Chairman of Kalam Research and Media (KRM) Paper: Reviving Libyan heritage of compassion and spiritual history     Zachary Wright, Northwestern University in Qatar (Ar-Rayyan, Qatar) Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies Paper: Being Human: Conceiving the Self in Nineteenth-Century African Islam     Cheikh A. Babou, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Associate Professor of History Paper: Sufi theology and the roots of non-violence in Ahmadu Bamba’s thought and Practices     Babacar Mbaye, Kent State University (Kent, OH, USA) Associate Professor Paper: Conquering oppression through Cosmopolitanism: Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba’s “Jihad of the Soul” and Edward W. Blyden’s Africa Moderator Ousseina D. Alidou, Rutgers University (Piscataway, New Jersey, USA) Associate Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures – Director of African Studies Center
1:30-3:00pm	Break
3:00-5:00pm	PANEL 3 Religious Thought and Practice International Affairs Building, Room 1501
	Presenters Kebede Kassa, St. Mary’s University (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Director for Research and Knowledge Management Paper: Islam-Christian Interreligious Marriages and Peaceful Coexistence: Lessons from Ethiopia to the World     Djénéba Traoré, West Africa Institute (Praia, Cabo Verde) Managing Director at the West Africa Institute (WAI) Paper: Saving Timbuktu, the City of Religious Tolerance over the Centuries     Dr Abdallah Souleymane Cheikh-Sidia (Mauritania) Representative of the Sidyia Community, Former Minister of Finances Paper: Origins of radical Islamism Moderator Pr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Professor of French, Department of French and Romance Philosophy, Columbia University)
5:00-6:00pm	Dinner for invited guests

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Panel in Senegal

West African Research Center of Dakar (WARC)
Rue Léon Gontran Damas (Fann Résidence), Dakar, Senegal
Tel : +221 77-657-82-12 / +221-76-682-00-03 / +221-33-865-22-77

Conference room

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DAY 3

Sunday, September 13

From 8:30am to 6:00pm
Kellogg Center, 15th Floor, International Affairs Building
420 W 118th St, New York, NY 10027

Video-conference Roundtable between Columbia and Dakar - Panels 3 & 4

Time slot	Activity
8:30-9:00am	Breakfast and Check-In (Lobby)
9:00-11:00am	PANEL 4: ROUNDTABLE Clerics & Academics dialogue responding to extremisms Live and video conference with participants from West African Research Center of Dakar International Affairs Building, Room 1501  & WARC Conference room
	Participants from Senegal Dr Cheikh Guèye (ENDA), Dr Bakary Sambe (Université Gaston Berger), Cheikh Tidiane Sy (Tijânî community of Tivaouane), Chouhaïbou Kébé (University of Touba), Same Bousso (Rawdu Rayâhîn), Mouhamed Kounta (Community of Ndiassane), Seydina Kane (Layène Community), Mouhamed Barro (Senegalese Islamic Association), Catholics clergy etc. Moderator Pr. Ousmane Sene (Director of WARC & Associate professor of Literature (African and African-American), University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal) Participants in New York Abdoul Aziz Mbacke (Majalis), Cheikh A. Babou (University of Pennsylvania), Dr Abdallah Souleymane Cheikh-Sidia (Representative of the Sidiya, Mauritania), Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacke (President of the Cultural Commission of the Magal of Touba, Senegal), S. Moustapha Mbacke Gaindé Fatma (Religious leader, Senegal), Eric Ross (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco), Zachary Wright (Northwestern University in Qatar), Cheikh Haroun (Religious leader in South Carolina), El Hadji Amadou Ndao (Consul General of Senegal in New York) etc. Moderator Pr. Mamadou Diouf (Leitner Family Professor of African Studies & Director, Institute for African Studies of Columbia University)
11:00-11:30am	Coffee break
11:30am-1:30pm	PANEL 5 Gender, Inequality, Diversity, Education International Affairs Building, Room 1501
	Presenters Ousseina D. Alidou, Rutgers University (Piscataway, New Jersey, USA) Associate Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures – Director of African Studies Center Paper: African Muslim Women, Islam, Inclusive Diversity and Culture of Peace     Serah Shani, Eastern University (St. Davids, PA, USA) Visiting Professor of Anthropology Paper: Islam as a Mechanism for Socioeconomic Mobility: African parenting practices in New York City     M. Scarborough, Columbia University (New York City, USA) PhD candidate Paper: At the confluence: Muslim Communists and civic education in Sudan Kira Kay, Executive Director of the Bureau for International Reporting Presentation of her short film on the Moroccan “Mourchidat” Moderator Pr. Karen Barkey (Professor of Sociology and History - Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life of Columbia University)
1:30-3:00	Lunch break
3:00-5:00	PANEL 6 Religion, Politics, Society International Affairs Building, Room 1501
	Presenters El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo, Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, USA) Lecturer Paper: Religion, Politics, and Society in Africa: How Sufi Leaders Contribute to Democratization in West Africa     Mohamed Mbodj, Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY, USA) Professor Paper: Urban politics and Islam in Kaolack (Sine-Saloum), in the 1920s and 1930s     Ahmad Ferguson, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA, USA) Ph.D. Candidate Paper: Global Impact of An Islamic Sufi NGO’s in Senegal: The African American Islamic Institute     Abdoul Aziz Mbacke, Majalis (Senegal) President of Majalis (African Muslim Heritage) and Murid scholar Paper: The next “social contract” between Religion and Politics in Senegal   Moderator Pr. Mamadou Diouf (Leitner Family Professor of African Studies & Director, Institute for African Studies of Columbia University)
5:00-6:00pm	Closing Reception

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DAY 4

Thursday, September 24

Columbia Low Memorial Library

Location: Campus of Columbia University
116 Street, Between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan, NY

The organizers of the Islam & Peace International Conference,
 in collaboration with
Columbia University World Leaders Forum,
will welcome

	Mr. Macky SALL, President of the Republic of Senegal & the present running President of ECOWAS
	Mr. Muhammadu BUHARI, President of the Republic of Nigeria

The Conference Memorandum will be handed over to the two Presidents
and the Islam & Peace International Prize will be officially launched.

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Guests List

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More information

Conference website: www.islampeaceconference.com

Email: info@islampeaceconference.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/islampeaceconference

Location: Columbia University (New York, USA)
International Affairs Building (420 W 118th St #1411, New York, NY 10027)

Columbia Institute of African Studies:
www.ias.columbia.edu/event/islam-and-peace-international-conference
201 Knox Hall, MC 9631, 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027
Tel: +1-212-854-4633

Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life:
ircpl.org/event/islam-peace-perspectives-from-african-muslim-nonviolence-traditions/

Contacts:
USA: +1-646-249-7450 / +1-646-678-7301

Senegal : +221 77-657-82-12 / +221-76-682-00-03 / +221-33-865-22-77

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The entire event will be live broadcasted on

BichriTV Channel (on ACAN TV box)

www.islampeaceconference.com

www.majalis.org