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April 18, 2020

What Difference Does a Day Make? Earth Day at Fifty

In an article for Emergence on the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, Senior Fellow Paul Elie traces the literary history of the environmental movement from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, covering writers like Bill McKibben, Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, and Elizabeth Kolbert.

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April 17, 2020

Religion Can be a Healing Balm for COVID-19's Disruption, If Applied Judiciously

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall, with co-authors Susan Hayward and Azza Karam, argues that religion can be part of the problem and solution in the COVID-19 pandemic. Their op-ed, published by Religion News Service, considers how multireligious solidarity can help address exclusion and fear in the wake of the pandemic.

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April 16, 2020

Scholars Featured in 2020 Strategic Note on Religion & Diplomacy

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall contributed insight on religion and COVID-19 to the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy's (TPNRD) annual resource, which helps foreign policy actors understand the intersection of religion and key global issues. Peter Mandaville, a Berkley Center senior research fellow and co-chair of the TPNRD Advisory Council, helped compile the note.

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The WFLF 2024-2025 fellows and the WFLF team.

April 3, 2025

Women Faith Leaders Fellowship Empowers Sisters to Lead Change

The Women Faith Leaders Fellowship (WFLF), hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, is working to create an environment where women faith leaders are positioned at the forefront of innovative and holistic development efforts to advance the well-being of women and girls. The 2024-2025 cohort are currently working on their capstone projects, and will come the Hilltop Campus in May. 

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March 26, 2025

Lucinda Mosher to Moderate Panel on Human Dignity Across Sacred Traditions

On April 10, 2025, Berkley Center Research Fellow Lucinda Mosher will moderate a panel at the "3rd Sacred Languages Symposium: Human Dignity," hosted by Hartford International University for Religion & Peace. The symposium explores how sacred texts across diverse traditions articulate and uphold the concept of human dignity.   

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