The International Summer School on Religion and Public Life provides a laboratory for the practical pedagogy of tolerance and living with difference in a global society. Its goals are to produce new practices and understandings for living together in a world populated by people with very different political ideas, moral beliefs and communal loyalties. Its focus is on religion, as our religious identities are our most exclusive and our religious communities are those to which we devote our greatest loyalties. In our diverse but increasingly interconnected world, we need to find ways to live together. The school takes these very real, critical and defining differences, especially communal and religious differences between people, as the starting point of a publically shared life.

• The 2012 ISSRPL, Negotiating Space in Diversity: Religions and Authorities, will be 2-15 July, in Yogyakarta and Bali, INDONESIA. Applications for the 2012 program are due 11 March 2012.

• For more on the ISSRPL, see a recent Boston University Arts & Sciences Magazine article by Andrew Thurston, “Tolerate Thy Neighbor” and a New York Times article by Nick Thorpe, "In a Divided Land, Lessons in Living Together," about the 2010 school. As well, the ISSRPL Occasional Paper Series, along with the most recent issue of ISSRPL NEWS, can be found in "Our Vision."

• The Equator Peace Academy, an ISSRPL-Affiliate School, will be hosting its annual international program, Whose Community? Memory, Conflict and Tradition, in Uganda and Rwanda from 12-26 August 2012. Further information on the 2012 EPA can be found at http://www.fiuc.org/umu/.