Berkley Center Hosts Task Force on Religious Liberty

January 8, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST
Location: Berkley Center Third Floor Conference Room Map

The Berkley Center hosted a meeting of the Witherspoon Institute's Task Force on International Religious Freedom, directed by Berkley Center Senior Fellow Thomas Farr. The Witherspoon Institute is an independent research center in Princeton, New Jersey that works to enhance public understanding of the moral foundations of free and democratic societies. The task force is part of Witherspoon's Center on Religion and the Constitution, which is directed by Notre Dame Law School Professor Gerard V. Bradley. The mission of the task force is to project a reasoned, compelling vision of religious freedom onto the scholarly, political, and legal stage. Its primary goal is to demonstrate to skeptics at home and abroad why religious liberty is vital to justice, human dignity, and ordered liberty. The task force is composed of scholars and policy thinkers with experience in religion and international affairs.

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Thomas F. Farr is president emeritus of the Religious Freedom Institute, an NGO committed to achieving worldwide acceptance of religious liberty. Farr is also a senior fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. From 2006 to 2018 he was an associate professor of the practice of religion and world affairs at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and senior fellow at the Berkley Center; during 2017 and 2018 he was director of the Religious Freedom Research Project and from 2011 to 2016 director of the Religious Freedom Project, both at the Berkley Center. After a distinguished career in the U.S. Army and the Foreign Service—which included teaching at West Point and the Air Force Academy, serving as an advisor during U.S.-Soviet arms control talks in Geneva, and leading an interagency task force on verification provisions for the START II Treaty—Farr served as the first director of the U.S. State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2003.

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