FACULTY LEADER
Katherine Marshall
Katherine Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, where she leads the Center's program on Religion and Global Development. After a long career in the development field, including several leadership positions at the World Bank, Marshall moved to Georgetown in 2006, where she also serves as a Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Foreign...
RELATED PROGRAM
The Berkley Center's Religion and Global Development program, in close collaboration with the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD), tracks the engagement of religious communities and faith-inspired organizations around global policy challenges and brings together stakeholders to examine best practices and advance collaboration.
INTERVIEWEES
RELATED MEDIA
CENTER NEWS
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Publication
Publication
Women, Religion, and Peace: Experience, Perspectives, and Policy Implications
Scholars and practitioners have devoted increasing attention to the roles played by faith communities in negotiating and building peace in the world's conflict zones. Because formal religious leadership tends to be dominated by men, women's engagement in religious peacemaking has received far less attention. To address this knowledge gap, the US Institute of Peace, the Berkley Center, and the World Faiths Development Dialogue are conducting a multiyear exploration of the activities and perspectives of women in peacebuilding and their policy implications.
A first
step in this project was a symposium in Washington DC in July 2010. This event
brought together an invited group of practitioners, academics, and
policy analysts. Together this group explored conflict situations
where women, with ties to religious traditions and institutions, play
active parts. Women's stories and perspectives were the focus. The
group sought to draw conclusions from this experience in terms of
distinctive women's contributions both to process and to agendas, and
will consider implications for the theory and practice of religious
peacemaking when gender is taken more explicitly into account.
Participants formulated recommendations for how outsiders can best
strengthen and support women's religious peacemaking. The symposium
drew on in-depth interviews with participants and others with
pertinent experience. A report followed the symposium and pointed to
more in depth exploration of specific cases. A second symposium in 2012 sought to address pertinent themes and possible recommendations to policy makers and peacemakers on issues of local peacebuilding, drawing from the first phase of the project and new inputs contained in the papers.
Please address questions to Katherine Marshall (Berkley Center, WFDD) and Susan Hayward (USIP).
>>View 2010 meeting report
>>View 2012 meeting report
>>View project report
>>View interview publication
>>Knowledge Resources on women, religion, and peace
Please address questions to Katherine Marshall (Berkley Center, WFDD) and Susan Hayward (USIP).
>>View 2010 meeting report
>>View 2012 meeting report
>>View project report
>>View interview publication
>>Knowledge Resources on women, religion, and peace
PUBLICATIONS
Women, Religion, and Peace Interview Series
February 29, 2012
In 2010, the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), and the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) embarked on an investigation into the relationships between women, religion, and peace. The project involves...
"Women, Religion, and Peace: Exploring Experience, Probing Complexity" Meeting Report
January 6, 2012
On January5-6, 2012, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, and World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) organized a second symposium on women's religious peacebuilding at USIP headquarters in Washington,...
Women in Religious Peacebuilding
May 1, 2011
To recognize and understand better the role of women in religious peacebuilding, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD), and Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs launched an initiative with a symposium on...
Women, Religion, and Peace: Meeting Report
July 8, 2010
On July 7-8, 2010, development practitioners, scholars, and policy-makers met in Washington, D.C. to initiate a conversation about the ways in which women inspired by or linked to religion create and maintain peace. The symposium was a partnership among the World Faiths Development Dialogue, the...
RELATED EVENTS
Women's Religious Peacebuilding Symposium
January 5, 2012
By invitation only. Please contact Claudia Zambra at claudia.zambra@wfdd.us with any questions.
The Berkley Center, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and the World Faiths Development Dialogue hosted a second symposium on women's religious peacemaking at USIP headquarters in Washington...
The Berkley Center, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and the World Faiths Development Dialogue hosted a second symposium on women's religious peacemaking at USIP headquarters in Washington...
An Exchange on Women's Roles for Peace: Is Religion a Source of Strength or an Obstacle?
July 7, 2010
This public event concluded a two-day symposium on women's approaches and work to build peace. With an emphasis on the roles of religion, meeting participants reflected with a broader audience on their conclusions, concerns, and ideas for making their work for peace more effective. Information...