Berkley Center

Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville contributed an essay examining how strategic rivals are advancing global agendas through religion to a new McCain Institute report, "The State of Religious Freedom Worldwide: An Inside Look at the Axis of Upheaval’s Religious Persecution and How the U.S. Can Counteract It." He will join several coauthors in discussing the report at a June 9 event on Capitol Hill.

In a New Yorker essay, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflects on Robert Prevost's first year as Leo XIV—a year in which the first American pope stepped into history the way John Paul II did when he went to Communist Poland in 1979.

At conference hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from May 4 to 6 titled "AI and the Future of Work," Berkley Center Director Thomas Banchoff moderated a invite-only panel on finding the balance between work, life, and AI with leading thinkers and practitioners.

A new working paper by Denys Brylov and Tetiana Kalenychenko with Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville, published as part of the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, explains why the war between Russia and Ukraine is not religious in origin, though religion figures prominently in several dimensions, including identity formation, social cohesion, and international advocacy.