Berkley Center

Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a senior adviser at the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID) and professor in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program at American University's School of International Service. An expert on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace, his work has focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on application of conflict resolution models in Muslim communities.

Lisa Cahill is the J. Donald Monan Professor in the Department of Theology at Boston College. She previously served as president of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Society of Christian Ethics. Cahill has written a number of books including Global Justice, Christology, and Christian Ethics (2013), Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change (2005), and Bioethics and the Common Good (2004). 

Rabbi Dr. Marc Gopin is the director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) and the James H. Laue Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Gopin has pioneered CRDC projects in Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Palestine, and Israel.

Timothy Samuel Shah is a distinguished research scholar in the Politics Department at the University of Dallas, as well as as a senior fellow at the Archbridge Institute and the principal investigator for the Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society (FORIS) project at the Religious Freedom Institute. Previously a research professor of government at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, he also served as associate director of the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project, director for international research of the center's Religious Freedom Research Project, and associate professor of the practice of religion and global politics in Georgetown University's Government Department. He is a political scientist specializing in religious freedom as well as in the broad relationship between religious and political dynamics in theory, history, and contemporary practice. He is author of God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (2011, with Monica Duffy Toft and Daniel Philpott) and editor of Under Caesar's Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution (2018, with Daniel Philpott) and Homo Religiosus? Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience (2018, with Jack Friedman). Shah received his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 2002, both from Harvard University.