Berkley Center

This week the Berkley Forum asks: What role does religion play in the ongoing persecution of Rohingya Muslims, who are arguably the world's largest stateless ethnic group? Does this situation constitute ethnic cleansing, as the United Nations implied earlier this month?

In the summer of 2016, the Religious Freedom Project awarded its second annual summer dissertation fellowship to students exploring the sources, development, and consequences of religious freedom. This week, the Berkley Forum asks them to synthesize and share their most pressing findings.

Religious leaders lead the faithful. But what do they have to say to others? Not much in a world where religion is a private matter and politics is secular.