Being Peace, Making Peace: Can Higher Education Help Us Become Peace?
Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of Maryland
Wednesday 21 October 2026, 2:00–3:30pm ET (7:00–8:30pm UK) · Online · Free
Professor Scherto Gill, Director of the Global Humanity for Peace Institute, will give a public lecture for the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace.
Why do societies that value peace continue to produce enemies? The lecture approaches this question by reconsidering what kind of beings we are. Human nature, it argues, is neither fixed in selfishness nor guaranteed in goodness; we are relational and unfinished, and what we become depends on the conditions in which we are formed.
From there it turns to peace as a quality of flourishing together, and to universities as institutions that shape, every day, how we recognise one another and what we remember. It asks what higher education would have to become for its graduates to live together well.
The lecture will be followed by thirty minutes of open discussion.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/bahai-gill
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