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February 19, 2019

Islam as Statecraft: How Governments Use Religion in Foreign Policy

A new Brookings Institution blog recaps a January 8 panel featuring Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville with Shadi Hamid, Geneive Abdo, and Indira Lakshmanan. They discussed a new report connected to a joint Brookings-Berkley Center project on the geopolitics of religious soft power.

Panelists debate the complex role religion and religious leaders play in causing or preventing violent extremism.

February 13, 2019

Religion, Governments, and Preventing Violent Extremism: What Have We Learned?

A panel of experts on global peacemaking and international security debated the complex role religion and religious leaders play in causing or preventing violent extremism, starting with two critical questions: firstly, how important religion is as a factor in violent extremism, and secondly, what kind of role religion and religious leaders can play in countering these groups.

St. Johann Chapel in Italy's Funes Valley

February 7, 2019

Ecological Conversion

Writing in Emergence Magazine, Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie is struck by the thought that the Catholic Church and the natural world have traded places as sources of transcendence and wonders how religion and the natural world might come together for shared renewal.

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