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February 25, 2019

Faculty Present at European Academy of Religion

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari and Senior Research Fellow Gerard Mannion are leading several panels at the 2019 meeting of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe), held March 4 to 7. Cesari is current president of EuARe, and Mannion is founding chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network.

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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.

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January 1, 2026

Jerome Copulsky on What Comes After the Declaration of Independence

In a Liberty Fund essay, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky reflects on what the founding document left open once independence was declared, arguing that the declaration offers guiding ideals, but the work of turning those principles into reality falls to each generation. 

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