LEadership

DR JOSEF BOEHLE

Director, Peace Charter for Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Dr Josef Boehle is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. He received a postgraduate degree in Theology from the University of Tuebingen, Germany and received his PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2001 for his thesis on Inter-religious Co-operation in a Global Age.

He has worked for international interreligious organisations and helped to organise major conferences and summits addressing inter religious, intercultural and intercivilisational issues. From 2005-2010 he was a member of a UK Government (DFID) sponsored Research Consortium on ‘Religions and Development’. Dr Boehle previously participated in a 4 year process of developing the United Religious Initiative Charter (1996-2000). He was the European Coordinator of the URI from 1997-2000. The URI Charter has been distributed and is actively consulted in many countries around the world. 

Dr Boehle was also a coordinator of the development of the Concept Note of the Interactive Hearing with Civil Society of the 2007 High-level Dialogue of the UN General Assembly on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace. His work and teaching focuses now on Religion, Politics and Peacebuilding.