Jennifer Howe Peace

M.A.T.S, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hamilton, MA, 1995 Jennifer Howe Peace is an interfaith educator and religious scholar.

[3] Peace reports that her parents' devotion to equity and their efforts to resist apartheid in South Africa contributed to her own interests in understanding justice in Christian and interfaith contexts.

[3] Although skeptical and initially not identifying as a Christian, Peace experienced a conversion event while attending a charismatic revival in London where she was studying South Asian religion.

The CIRCLE curriculum relocated to The Miller Center at Hebrew College and Peace retained her local relationships in the Newton, Massachusetts area.

[9] Peace's work with CIRCLE led her to promote the concept of "coformation" (a term that she coined in the context of shared pastoral training).

"[12] In 2013, Peace co-founded the Interfaith and Interreligious Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) with Homayra Ziad.

[16] Peace's studies of interreligious relations has led her to assert that interfaith work raises consciousness and promotes respect, strengthens without threatening religious identity, and is a "practical imperative" for global problem-solving.