Religious Leaders as Peace Builders

January 30, 2012-February 3, 2012

The twenty-third annual International Military Chiefs of Chaplains Conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, included the Berkley Center's Eric Patterson as the featured speaker and leader of three panels. The conference theme was "Religious Leaders as Peacebuilders," and Patterson used abbreviated versions of the Berkley Center's religion and conflict case studies (Iraq, Mindanao, Mozambique) to lead discussions on the role of chaplains as peace builders. He also spoke on trends in religion in world affairs and new trends in conflict resolution studies.

The conference, hosted by the chaplaincy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was supported in part by the US European Command Chaplains office, which consulted with Patterson and the Berkley Center on the conference agenda.

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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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