Supporting a Positive Role for Faith in Diplomacy and Politics

From the outset, the Berkley Center has addressed issues at the intersection of faith, politics, diplomacy, and peace.

During its first decade, the center was home to the Religious Freedom Project, the first university-based research and impact program of its kind. The center also managed a number of government outreach programs; produced a book on political theology for a global age; advanced research at the intersection of religion, law, and world affairs, and collaborated with the World Economic Forum on a report on “Faith and the Global Agenda.”

Over the past several years the center has expanded its engagement with issues at the intersection of religion, diplomacy, and peace. Both the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy and the Geopolitics of Soft Power Project bring scholars and practitioners together to address the changing role of religion in world affairs. The program on the Politicization of Religion in Global Perspective explores the intersection of faith and politics. The center is also home to a multiyear project on the changing relationship between religion and human rights.