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Shanta Premawardhana

Team Leader

Shanta Premawardhana is president of OMNIA Institute for Contextual Leadership. Prior to OMNIA, he served as the Director for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also the Associate General Secretary for Interfaith Relations at the National Council of Churches, USA. While serving as pastor of Ellis Avenue Church in Chicago, he engaged in community organizing in the Southside of Chicago. He is an emeritus trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, National Council of Churches, USA, and Common Cause Illinois. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Shanta Premawardhana is president of OMNIA Institute for Contextual Leadership. Prior to OMNIA, he served as the Director for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also the Associate General Secretary for Interfaith Relations at the National Council of Churches, USA. While serving as pastor of Ellis Avenue Church in Chicago, he engaged in community organizing in the Southside of Chicago. He is an emeritus trustee of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, National Council of Churches, USA, and Common Cause Illinois. He earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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VIRTUAL IP TEAM TRAINING

will be held in april 2023

The next Virtual Interfaith Peacemaker Team Training will be held on four Saturdays in 2023. Exact dates will be announced soon. Class sessions will be augmented by video lessons and other assignments in between.  

The purpose of the training is to build Interfaith Peacemaker Teams in local contexts where the trainees live.

The training includes skills in interfaith dialogue and collaboration, getting clarity around self-interest, building power through one-on-one relationships building, and strategically engaging in actions on urgent, relevant and winnable issues of justice and peace that arise from the ground.

For more information, please sign up using the form on the right.

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Virtual IP Team NETWORK

Those who have completed their virtual Interfaith Peacemaker Team trainings are invited to participate in a Virtual IP Team Network. The Network meets at least once in two months on Zoom. It is exploring how to address a "thin-sliced" issue that is urgent, relevant and winnable, that arises from ground-up.

Some members have established IP Teams in their local communities.


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