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April 4, 2013

Millennium Development Goals: 1000 Days to Go


With 1000 days left to realize the UN's Millennium Development Goals, Katherine Marshall argues that the world has the knowledge and resources to eradicate poverty. She draws on World Bank President Jim Yong Kim's remark in a recent speech at Georgetown that "the time is ripe to do right."

March 27, 2013

Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions


At a conference cosponsored by the Masters in Foreign Service Program, Tom Banchoff explored the resonance of human dignity as a foundational concept in various religions and cultural traditions.

March 19, 2013

Sectarian Politics in Iraq


On the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Jocelyne Cesari says that sectarian divides threaten a stable democracy in the country, but a more pragmatic political process may be able to unify Iraqis across religious sects and ethnic groups.

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Lisé Morjé Howard

March 6, 2026

Faculty Fellow Lise Morjé Howard to Speak on the Future of UN Peacekeeping

Lise Morjé Howard, a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center, will participate in a panel discussion at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled “The UN Without the United States: UN Peacekeeping.” The event will explore how shifting global politics and a potential decline in U.S. support could reshape the future of United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Jim Wallis

February 13, 2026

Jim Wallis on Why Black History Is America's History

Writing in Religion News Service, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jim Wallis contends that facing the history of racial injustice in the United States with honesty is not divisive, but necessary for democratic renewal and moral clarity.

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