Conference Papers

The following themes are the range of issues that papers will address. Fethullah Gülen's and the Gülen movement's views and practices related to the:

• Teaching and interpretation of Islamic principles and issues
• Sufism and Gülen
• Education in contemporary societies
• Interfaith and intercultural dialogue, tolerance and peace
• Understanding of the historical dynamics and references of tolerance, multiculturalism and the Ottoman example
• Terrorism, coercion, and violence
• The resolution of social, ethnic, and religious conflict in the modern world, and democracy
• Approaches to universal ethical values in Gülen's discourse
• Turkey's coexistence with or integration into the European Union
• The changing role of women in society and in public life