The Religious Dynamics of War and Peace Faculty Seminar

January 6- 7, 2011
Location: Berkley Center third floor conference room, 3307 M Street, NW Map

This two-day symposium for faculty from professional military education institutions at the intermediate, advanced-warfighting, and senior service levels focused on pedagogy and classroom resources on religion, war, and peace. Among the sessions were "The Latest Washington Thinking on Religion and US Foreign Policy," "Case Study Resources on Conflict Resolution," "Teaching Religious Factors in the Five Stages of Conflict," and the opportunity to play the new simulation, "Stabilization Operations in Highly Religious Societies: Afghanistan."

The event was co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and National Defense University's Institute for National Security Ethics and Leadership.

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Eric Patterson serves as president of the Religious Freedom Institute and is a research fellow with the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He previously served as dean of the School of Government at Regent University, and before that, as associate director at the Berkley Center. He is an expert in two overlapping areas: the ethics of war and peace, and global religious trends and religious freedom policy. These two areas routinely intersect, such as in building post-conflict systems that represent diverse ethnoreligious factions, understanding the religious factors in conflict, and measuring U.S. democracy promotion efforts. His government experience includes time at the U.S. State Department, service as a White House Fellow, and over 20 years as an Air National Guard commander. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including Politics in a Religious World: Toward a Religious Informed U.S. Foreign Policy (2011).

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