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Introduction The Turquoise Harmony Institute hosted the 9th Annual Friendship and Dialogue Dinners series between 30 October and 4 November 2014. For the first time, the Dialogue Dinner series was hosted in four cities across South Africa, beginning in Johannesburg, before moving to Durban, Cape Town and culminating in Bloemfontein – with the tag line […]

Friendship, love, peace and harmony were only what permeated the atmosphere as friends embraced different cultural beliefs and customs, during the Coffee Night hosted by Turquoise Harmony Institute on 24 February, Wednesday night in Sandton. The coffee-themed motion, was an activity for friends to have dialogues to ultimately create the desired love, peace and harmony […]

The Istanbul Summit 2016 Reconsidering Gender Equality and Peaceful Societies was held in Bangkok on 7-8 May by Journalists and Writers Foundation’s Women’s Platform, in partnership with the Thailand Achievement Institute, African Union and Mahidol University by the National Institute for Child and Family Development to discuss global problems facing women and possible solutions under […]

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, was awarded the Fethullah Gülen Peace and dialogue Award during the eighth annual Ubuntu Lecture and Dialogue Awards ceremony, held in Johannesburg on Thursday evening. The awards were organized by the Turquoise Harmony Institute, a dialogue center inspired by prominent Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to […]

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was awarded the Fethullah Gülen Peace and Dialogue Award during the seventh annual Ubuntu Lecture and Dialogue Awards ceremony held in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening. The awards were organized by the Turquoise Harmony Institute, a dialogue center inspired by the prominent Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah […]

On September 29, 2015, Journalists & Writers Foundation and Peace Islands Institute organized UNGA Conference 2015 by true collaboration and partnership of civil society organizations from around the world. The UNGA Conference 2015 gathered 300 representatives from more than 30 countries during the historic World Summit that adopted the Global Goals 2030. High-level representatives including […]