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Social Innovation and Social Action Conference

Featuring addresses by CEDAR Advisory Board member Farah Pandith and CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz

13 - 15 November 2011
Lambeth Palace

CEDAR, the European Muslims Professional Network, partnered with Faiths Forum for London and the JDC International Centre for Community Development to present the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, held at Lambeth Palace on 13-15 November 2011.

The conference hosted 80 leaders and professionals from faith, social action and social innovation sectors and from diverse cities including Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Casablanca, Sarajevo, Istanbul and Amman. Ten CEDAR members from across Europe attended the conference, and Ahmed Larouz, CEDAR Chair, addressed the attendees and presented CEDAR and its vision during the opening session. CEDAR Advisory Board member Farah Pandith delivered a keynote address during the session on cross-community Social Action.

The conference was generously supported by The Buncher Foundation.

Click here to view a video about the conference.

HE Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech Foreign Minister, addresses an invited audience at an ISD policy breakfast, October 2011
Leading activists from pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, speaking at a Weidenfeld Debate, February 2012
CEDAR Chair Ahmed Larouz, addressing the Social Innovation and Social Action Conference, Lambeth Palace, November 2011
Lord Weidenfeld and Sir Ronald Grierson, co-founders of the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme, April 2010
Historian Saul Friedlander, Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography at the University of Oxford, May 2012
Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, addresses the inaugural Turkey Workshop, London, September 2011
Vanessa Redgrave, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2012, speaking at the University of Oxford, February 2012.
Journalist and blogger Sunny Hundal, delivering a presentation at ISD's Social Media and Intolerance workshop, April 2012
Peter Kellner, President of YouGov and Dr David Muir, Faith in Britain, at the launch conference of the Phoenix Initiative, October 2010