BACKGROUND INFORMATION 

This Report on “Regional Trends in Interreligious Relations 2019” covers regional developments in inter-religious relations in plural societies. Specifically, it examines religiously motivated conflicts and violence, initiatives which promote peacebuilding, policy formulation in furtherance of religious freedom and dialogue as well as hate speech prevention and other significant occurrences or trends in the encounter amongst religions.

It is the outcome of a yearlong monitoring and analysis of a diversity of reports on the state of inter-religious relations and religious affairs in Asian societies, under the broad theme of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. These reports are gathered from a myriad of sources including local, regional, international, independent, online, and conventional media (religious and other), to offer balanced perspectives to readers.

The distinctive focus of the Report is Asia. It stems from the SRP’s interest in studying developments in Asia pertaining to religion as they can directly, or indirectly, impact all states (including Singapore) due to their high levels of interconnectivity.

This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session and discussion moderated by Head, SRP.

It will be held on Tuesday 17 November at 11.00 am.

The programme is as follows

10.55 am – Participants should join in the meeting

11.00 am – Welcome and Introduction by Head SRP

11.05 am – Presentation by Muhammad Haziq

11.35 am – Q&A and Discussion moderated by Head SRP

12.20 am – End