Bringing Interfaith and Intercultural dialogue organisations together
Second Symposium
Paris, France – Dec 6 - 8, 2017

Connecting Actions is an international initiative to convene citizen, intercultural, and interfaith dialogue groups to share best practices.

The initiative received its name based on a global network that one of the organizing organizations, the Muslim Jewish Conference, created on Facebook in response to the refugee crisis, which began last summer. Called Connecting Actions, the group mobilized a few hundred young Muslims and Jews around Europe to help assist the refugees by providing food and clothing for them upon their arrival in Germany, Austria, and Hungary.

The symposium, hosted by The Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC) in collaboration with Coexister, Three Faith Forum, Faith Matters, and the European Union of Jewish Students, serves to bring citizen, intercultural, and interreligious dialogue groups from around Europe to share their experience in the field: best practices, major mistakes made, and best lessons learned.

Connecting Actions, taking place in the backdrop of mounting religious, ethnic and political tensions in Europe, will address pressing questions around the concept of active coexistence, methods and objectives of dialogue, challenges, combating radicalism, resources, social messages and media coverage through intense rounds of discussions. The discussions will be facilitated with tested techniques and methodologies.

After a first Symposium on November 23-25, 2016, the second gathering on December 6-8 in Paris aims to build a European Coalition of organisations implementing citizen, interreligious and intercultural dialogue projects.