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Partnerships and Grants

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs seeks a more just and peaceful world by deepening knowledge and solving problems at the intersection of religion and global affairs through research, teaching, and engaging multiple publics. These partners and foundations, along with continued support from former Georgetown University board member William Berkley, help make our work possible.

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Brookings Institution

From 2018 to 2021, the Brookings Institution is partnering with the Berkley Center for a project to systematically study the use of religion in foreign affairs. Through a global comparison of varying motivations, strategies, and practices associated with the deployment of religious soft power, project research aims to reveal patterns, trends, and outcomes that will enhance our understanding of religion’s role in contemporary geopolitics. The joint effort is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Since the 2017-2018 academic year, the Berkley Center has been a member of the Pulitzer Center's Campus Consortium. As part of this arrangement, the two centers jointly sponsor one Georgetown student as a Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellow each summer and host four total events featuring Pulitzer Center journalists. The purpose of both the fellowship and the events is to bring to light systemic issues from around the world that are underreported.

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StoryCorps

Since 2012, Georgetown has partnered with StoryCorps on the American Pilgrimage Project, which invites Americans of diverse backgrounds to sit together and talk to each other one-on-one about the role their religious beliefs play at crucial moments in their lives. The project, which is based in the Berkley Center, has brought people together to record conversations in over 10 American cities—gathering more than 150 stories in all—and has drawn stories from StoryCorps’ archives of 100,000+ conversations.

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Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy

Since 2019 the Berkley Center has partnered with the Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University to plan and sponsor events, exchanges, collaborative research, and publications. The two institutions pool experience, perspectives, and capacities in cooperative efforts to advance global understanding and appreciation of traditional expressions and the future potential of the Confucian tradition, as well as East Asian and comparative philosophy more generally.

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World Economic Forum

In 2018, the Berkley Center began working with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to serve as the curator for the Role of Religion map for WEF's Transformation Maps project. The maps are designed as a dynamic system of contextual intelligence covering over 100 topics and are aimed at enabling more informed decision-making by leaders in government, business, civil society, academia, the arts, and media.

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World Faiths Development Dialogue

For over a decade, the Berkley Center has collaborated with the World Faiths Development Dialogue—a not-for-profit organization working at the intersection of religion and global development—on a number of research efforts including, most notably, the Religion and Development project. Initially this joint project focused on analyzing and documenting religious development engagement across global regions, and it has since focused in on several countries, including Bangladesh, Guatemala, Senegal, and Kenya. The effort involves original research in each country and is designed to answer three central questions: Taking any development issue, what does religion have to do with it? Why does religious engagement matter, and what can be learned from it? How does this translate into policy challenges and policy action?

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Carnegie Corporation of New York is funding a joint Brookings Institution-Berkley Center multi-year project to systematically study the use of religion in foreign affairs. Through a global comparison of varying motivations, strategies, and practices associated with the deployment of religious soft power, project research aims to reveal patterns, trends, and outcomes that will enhance our understanding of religion’s role in contemporary geopolitics. The projects and contents below were made possible through the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and views expressed in these materials are solely the responsibility of the authors.

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Henry Luce Foundation

The generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation has allowed the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy (TPNRD) to migrate from Cambridge University to Georgetown University as one of the Berkley Center's ongoing programs. Previous institutional collaboration included a multiyear partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation and Walsh School of Foreign Service to examine the changing role of religion in development and a 2017 to 2019 event series highlighting five key issues at the nexus of religion and global affairs, supplemented by a white paper and blogs posts on each of the five issues.

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Past Partnerships and Grants

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GHR Foundation

In December 2016, the GHR Foundation made possible the international gathering "Combating the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Workshop to Strengthen Faith-Based Engagement." The workshop, which took place in Rome, initiated a call to action informed by faith-based organizations (FBOs) for strengthening capacity among FBOs to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant disease and address the associated health, social, and development impacts of such illnesses. The GHR Foundation also supported a follow-up workshop in April 2019 as part of the center's and broader Georgetown efforts to address the challenge of antimicrobial resistance through faith-based action.

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