Visiting Scholar, Professor Ralf Wüstenberg, Director of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution was awarded the Certificate of Honor by the Jewish-Muslim Beit Midrash organisation.
The Certificate of Honor commends the European Wasatia Graduate School for its meaningful contribution to peace education through its international doctoral programme in Peace and Conflict Resolution. The award highlights the School’s commitment to academic excellence, interdisciplinary research, and the education of future scholars and practitioners dedicated to addressing some of the world’s most pressing conflicts.
Since its establishment, the European Wasatia Graduate School has brought together doctoral researchers from conflict-affected regions across the globe. Through an interdisciplinary approach that integrates political science, history, theology, ethics, law, sociology, psychology, and peace studies, the programme provides a unique academic environment in which students critically engage with questions of justice, historical memory, reconciliation, and sustainable peace.
Receiving the award, Professor Ralf Wüstenberg stated:
In our Graduate School, we are deeply committed to the field of peace and conflict resolution research and strive to support peaceful interreligious dialogue. Here in Flensburg, we are able to create a space for early career researchers from crisis-stricken regions, particularly the Middle East. I am very pleased that these efforts towards dialogue and the courage to pursue reconciliation were honored at the highest level during this ceremony.
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About Professor Ralf Wustenberg
Formerly a Senior Research Associate of the Von Hügel Institute (VHI), Professor Ralf Wüstenberg is currently a Visiting Scholar at St Edmund’s College and an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University. He has led several research events on conflict resolution and reconciliation at the VHI and most recently collaborated with the Research Engagement Dialogue Series (REDS) on “Bearing Witness Across Histories of Violence“.
