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Ines Angeli Murzaku Receives United Nations Appointment
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Monday, March 16, 2009
by: Miriam Lyons Frolow, M.P.A.

Ines Angeli Murzaku, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Honors Program, has been appointed to the United Nations as a Christians Associated for Relationship with Eastern Europe (CAREE) representative.
 
Non-governmental organizations (NGO) including CAREE have been active in the United Nations since its founding. They interact with the United Nations Secretariat, programs, funds and agencies and consult with the Member States. CAREE is an ecumenical organization in pursuit of peace, justice, and reconciliation in and for Eastern Europe for more than forty years. The association's journal Religion in Eastern Europe is the only major publication in North America to publish current scholarship on religion and theology in Eastern Europe.
 
CAREE has been represented at the United Nations as the U.S. Committee for the Christian Peace Conference since 1965. The late Dr. Carl Soule, former executive secretary of the United Methodist Office for the United Nations was CAREE's first accredited representative to the United Nations. As a CAREE accredited representative, Dr. Murzaku will contribute in disseminating research-based information and raising awareness to United Nations policy makers on religion, inter-religious dialogue, and peace-building. The areas that particularly interest Dr. Murzaku are ecumenism and bridge building between diverse religions: Christianity in its various expressions and Islam, especially in an Eastern European, post-Communist context. Healing the memories of separation and conflict, a communal contemplation is needed and can be achieved only through dialogue.
 
Dr. Murzaku developed a new Signature III course entitled Catholic and Ecumenical, where she will bring to Seton Hall students the United Nations experience and exchanges on the subject.

For more information please contact:
Ines Angeli Murzaku, Ph.D.
(973) 275-5845
murzakui@shu.edu