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October 26, 2023
Reflecting on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act, Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville and Knox Thames discuss how global persecution continues while domestic battles around religious liberty have become increasingly partisan and high-profile.
October 26, 2023
Senior Fellow José Casanova will participate in a November 6 conference at Luiss University in Rome on "Religions on War and Peace." Part of the Luiss Religions in Dialogue Forum, this event will gather students, researchers, and representatives of religious communities to discuss how religion as a factor of identity can become an instrument of division, but also a ground for dialogue and peace.
October 25, 2023
Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser participated in an October 24 talk at the University of Michigan's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies where she discussed how queer, feminist, and ecologically-informed disability wisdom can catalyze a radical recognition of the sacred among human, animal, and earthy kin.
October 23, 2023
Georgetown University's Intersectionality Series will host a November 2 event to launch Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole, a new book by Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser.
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July 1, 2026
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University mourns the loss of William R. Berkley, our inspirational benefactor and devoted friend. Bill passed away recently at the age of eighty. A brilliant business leader who built the W. R. Berkley Corporation from humble beginnings into a global insurance powerhouse, Bill's success was matched by his generosity as a philanthropist. Georgetown is among the many beneficiaries of his vision and steadfast support.
June 22, 2026
In a special NPR segment exploring the origins of American religious liberty, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky reflects on how early ideals established a fundamental purpose for the United States government: protecting natural, inalienable rights.
June 9, 2026
Melissa Nozell of the Strategic Religious Engagement Hub is participating in "Tools for Sustainable Peacemaking: An Invitation to Learn and Exchange," a series that brings together practitioners, policymakers, faith leaders, and academics to explore approaches to community-level peacebuilding. This second session covered "Education as a Foundation for Peace."
May 13, 2026
An OSV News article quotes Research Fellow Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., on the potential for a new Georgia law to become a model for other states in protecting vulnerable adults.
