A Roundtable Presented by The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace

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University of Maryland, College Park

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A Roundtable Presented by The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace • University of Maryland, College Park •

Multiculturalism and Building Peace

November 5, 2025

Lessons from Five Nations

Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C., USA

Event Overview

This event explores how several diverse nations including, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, and others to be announced, are actively engaged in learning how to foster peaceful and cohesive societies by cultivating multiple cultural, ethnic, and religious communities. Each has taken meaningful steps toward embracing cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity—not as a challenge to unity, but as a strength to be nurtured. The event celebrates the strategies these countries are using to promote belonging, cooperation and mutual respect across diverse communities. 

Event Timeline

5:00PM

Opening Remarks 

MC: Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett

6:00PM

Registration/Welcome

6:15PM

Ambassador Remarks 

7:30PM

Closing Remarks:

Vice Chancellor Johnnie Moore

Reception Begins

 

Library of Congress

James Madison Bldg
Montpelier Room (6th floor)
101 Independence. Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20540

The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland is an endowed academic program that advances interdisciplinary examination and discourse on global peace. While drawing certain initial insights from religion, the program aims to develop a sound scientific basis for knowledge and strategies that lead to the creation of a better world. Viewing humanity as a collective and organic whole, the Chair’s incumbent, Professor Hoda Mahmoudi, and the program’s faculty explore the role that social actors and structures play in removing obstacles and creating paths to peace. Central to this focus is creating a body of rigorously derived and tested knowledge that can be applied to foster the emergence of a just, secure, and sustainable international order, one that addresses the social, material, and spiritual progress of the global community.