The conference, supported financially by the development agency Cordaid, Netherlands and the University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law, will feature a number of world leaders in this area including:  Dr Mukti Barton, tutor in Black and Liberation theologies at Queens; Rev Chandramohan, an Indian social activitst; Dr Jacob Devadason, a British based Dalit theologian; Dr Richard Devadoss, a Dalit rights educationalist; Rev David Haslam, founder of the Dalit Solidarity Network, UK; Dr. Mohan Larbeer, Dalit theologian and secretary of the Board of Theological Education of the Senate of Serampore, India; and Mr. Savio Mahimaidass, Convenor of the Alliance for Community Cohesion, UK.