The Strategic Religious Engagement Hub is an initiative dedicated to preserving and strengthening the U.S. government’s capacity for strategic religious engagement (SRE) in the contexts of diplomacy, development, and defense. Defined as efforts by U.S. government foreign policy and national security agencies to engage and partner with religious actors, SRE capabilities have been cultivated and institutionalized over the last several decades; however, due to broad administrative restructuring across the federal government in early 2025, the SRE infrastructure within the U.S. government has largely been lost. The hub seeks to preserve the U.S. government’s capacity for SRE in the years ahead. Since it was established in April 2025, the SRE Hub has spearheaded a variety of activities to pursue its mission, including: the SRE Digital Repository, an oral history project, The Missing Dimension blog, strategic convenings, and Religion, Peace, and Conflict Country Profiles.
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