The Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs

G E O R G E T O W N U N I V E R S I T Y

The Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs

A collaboration between the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign

Service and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World

Affairs at Georgetown University

Supported by the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and

International Affairs

ANNUAL REPORT 2007–2008

“In the theory and practice of

international affairs, few issues

are as important and as little

understood as the role of

religion. Our partnership with

the Luce Foundation is a way

to build and transmit knowledge

in a crucial area.”

Robert Gallucci, Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

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INTRODUCTION

The Henry R . Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, announced in 2005, seeks to deepen American understanding of religion as a factor in international policy issues . The Edmund A . Walsh School of Foreign Service is the recipient of a two-year grant from the Luce Foundation . This report outlines the 2007–08 activities of the Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs, implemented in collaboration with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University .

As the oldest Catholic and Jesuit University in the United States, located in the nation’s capital, Georgetown is committed to deepening our understanding of religion and its role in world affairs . The Edmund A . Walsh School of Foreign Service, founded in 1919, educates young leaders to excel in a world marked by increasing cultural and religious diversity . The School is home to the Mortara Center for International Studies, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Program for Jewish Civilization, and fourteen other centers and programs . Building on these strengths, the Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs convenes thought leaders and practitioners and builds knowledge resources for faculty, students, policymakers, and a broader public grappling with the complex intersection of religion and world affairs .

The Luce/SFS Program focuses on two thematic areas: religion and global development and the religious sources of foreign policy . The Foundation’s support enables progressive teaching, research, and outreach activities in both areas, as well as innovative publications and web-based knowledge resources .

The 2007–08 program included seminars and symposia around key issues in global develop-ment and the politics of international religious freedom; undergraduate and graduate course offerings; graduate student research fellowships; interactive online databases; and a series of reports on topics including faith-inspired organizations in development and religion in Israeli state and society . This report highlights these and other accomplishments and looks forward to plans for 2008–09 .

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The Luce/sfs Program on Religion and International

Affairs examines two crucial topic areas in-depth:

the evolving relationship between religion and global

development and the religious sources of foreign

policy in comparative perspective.

Religion and global development The program examines the role of religious groups and ideas in both donor and developing countries, and evaluates the prospects for greater religious-secular cooperation in the development field . Its components include: graduate student research fellowships; a religion and development database; and the creation and dissemination of “religious literacy” materials for development professionals in government, NGOs, and international organizations .

Religious sources of foreign Policy The program addresses the impact of religion on the foreign policies of key states around the world, placing the US case in an international context . Its key components include new undergraduate and graduate courses and symposia that bring together scholars and policy experts around emergent issues, such as the mobilization of religious groups around foreign policy, the intersection between religion, migration, and foreign policy, and the politics of international religious freedom .

THE EDMUND A. WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE

Founded in 1919 to educate students and prepare them for leadership roles in international affairs, the School of Foreign Service conducts an undergraduate program for over 1,300 students and graduate programs at the Master’s level for more than 700 students . Under the leadership of Dean Robert L . Gallucci, the School houses more than a dozen regional and functional programs that offer courses, conduct research, host events, and contribute to the intellectual development of the field of international affairs . In 2007, a survey of faculty published in Foreign Policy ranked Georgetown University as #1 in Master’s degree programs in international relations .

THE BERKLEY CENTER

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, created within the Office of the President in March 2006, is part of a university-wide effort to build knowledge about religion’s role in world affairs and promote interreligious understanding in the service of peace . The Center explores the intersection of religion with contemporary global challenges . Through research, teaching, and outreach activities, the Berkley Center builds knowledge, promotes dialogue, and supports action in the service of peace . Thomas Banchoff, Associate Professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service, is the Center’s founding director .

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Program Highlights

MILESTONES

september 2007 — Thomas Farr assumes leadership of the Religious Sources of Foreign Policy area of the Luce/SFS Program . He joins the Edmund A . Walsh School of Foreign Service as a Visiting Associate Professor and the Berkley Center as a Senior Fellow .

september 2007 — Seminar on Islam, Constitutions, and Durable Democracy: Iraq and Afghanistan brings together leading scholars and policymakers to discuss implications of domestic developments in the region for US foreign policy .

October 2007 — Publication and Presentation of Faith Communities Engage the HIV/AIDS Crisis: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward, a comprehensive overview of the role of faith-inspired organizations in the struggle against the pandemic .

december 2007 — Symposium in Doha on Global Development and Faith-Inspired Organizations in the Muslim World, exploring the role of faith-based organizations in development in the Muslim world .

January 2008 — Seminar on Religion in Israeli Society, Politics, and Foreign Policy, featuring Rabbi Michael Melchior, Knesset member and Chief Rabbi of Norway .

february 2008 — Symposium on Why Religious Freedom? The Origins and Promise of the International Religious Freedom Act, featuring Michael Cromartie (Ethics and Public Policy Center) and Liu Peng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) .

march 2008 — Symposium on Religion, Migration, and Foreign Policy: Tensions in Immigration Policy and Immigrant Integration, featuring Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (Brooklyn) and Dr . Richard Land (Southern Baptist Convention) .

April 2008 — Symposium on US International Religious Freedom Policy: Assessing the Results, with Walter Russell Mead (Council on Foreign Relations) and Muslim reformer Abdulkarim Soroush, a visiting fellow at the Berkley Center .

may 2008 — Publication of Challenges of Change: Faith, Gender, and Development, publication of background report and its presentation at a Berkley Center seminar .

June 2008 — Workshop in The Hague on Global Development with Faith-Inspired Organizations in Africa and Europe brings together development leaders from two continents to discuss best practices of faith-based development work .

Carol Lancaster, Director of the

Mortara Center for International

Studies

MORTARA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

The Mortara Center for International Studies is a critical partner in the implementation of the Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs . Located within the School of Foreign Service, the Center is at the heart of campus-wide activities centered on foreign policy and international relations, one of Georgetown’s research and teaching strengths . Center Director Carol Lancaster is a leading expert on development policy and its links back to domestic US politics . She is author of Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and, most recently, of George Bush’s Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos? (Center For Global Development, 2008) .

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With the UN’s millennium summit and renewed world-

wide efforts to combat economic and social inequality

in the context of globalization, development has

moved up the global agenda. Religious communities

have long been among the most engaged in the fight

against poverty and disease and advocating for

education and shelter.

Against this backdrop, the lack of communication and cooperation among religious and secular actors in the development field is striking . Development professionals in governments and NGOs have tended to view religion as marginal—or as divisive or dangerous . Some leading religious groups have viewed the state-directed development enterprise with suspicion .

The Luce/SFS Program on Religion and Global Development serves two related goals . Through teaching and research activities it builds knowledge about the role of religious communities in global development—as a source of ethical commitment, material resources, professional expertise, and effective policy implementation . Through outreach activities, the Luce/SFS Program brings together practitioners and analysts for structured conversations about the challenges of development policy and the potential for deeper collaboration across the religious/secular divide .


Religion and Global Development

FACULTY ExPERT

Katherine Marshall has worked for over three decades on international development, with a focus on issues facing the world’s poorest countries . As a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a Visiting Associate Professor of Government, she coordinates the Luce/SFS Program on Religion and Global Development . Before coming to Georgetown, Marshall served with distinction and held many leadership positions at the World Bank . From 2000–2006, her mandate covered ethics, values, and faith in development work, as counselor to the World Bank’s President . Marshall is the author of several books, including Mind, Heart, and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty (2004) and Development and Faith: Where Mind, Heart, and Soul Work Together (2007) . She serves on the Boards of several NGOs and on advisory groups, is a Trustee of Princeton University, and directs the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) .

PUBLIC DIALOGUE

Katherine Marshall’s blog, Faith in Action, appears on the Georgetown/On Faith website, a collaboration between Georgetown and Newsweek/Washington Post .com Interactive’s On Faith website . The blog explores struggles, alliances, and common efforts of people of faith, public and private, to address challenges of economic and social development at the local, national, and global levels . Topics Marshall has addressed include the alliances among diverse groups confronting challenges like global warming, rising food prices worldwide, and the role of women and gender in global development . She often posts reports from development meetings she attends or leads around the globe .

Katherine Marshall

CURRICULAR INNOVATION

In Fall 2007, Katherine Marshall taught an undergraduate course, Poverty and Inequity: Development Challenges, from Theory to Practice . The course explored the recent history of development thinking, with a specific focus on the formulation and application of the Millennium Development Goals and then investigated more specifically the World Bank, beginning with its poverty and equity mission, the evolution of its mandate and organization, and the present challenges it faces .

During the Spring 2008 semester, Marshall taught a graduate level course, Religion and Development . The course, open to Master’s students within the School of Foreign Service, explored the rela-tionship between religion and development policy at two levels—the approaches of varied faith communities, rooted in scripture and tradition, and the interaction of religious and secular forces around a range of particular case studies, including HIV/AIDS, gender, poverty, and the environment . The course was designed to help prepare students for service in government and international organizations, NGOs, or the private sector .

STUDENT RESEARCH

The Luce/SFS program awarded six graduate research fellowships during the 2007–08 academic year . The fellowships are designed to extend intellectual engagement beyond the classroom and to support students as creators of knowledge in an emergent, under-studied area . The fellows selected after an open competition— Meredith Connelly, Carrie Monahan, Jehan Balba, Vanda de la Mata, Alisha Bhagat, and Alex Thurston—helped in the prepara-tion of three background papers published in 2007–08:

Faith-Inspired Organizations and Global Development Policy: Mapping Social Economic Development Work in the Muslim World for the Symposium on Faith and Development in the Muslim World held in Doha, Qatar in December 2007 .

Challenges of Change: Faith, Gender, and Development was published in advance of the Women, Faith, and Development Summit to End Global Poverty at the Washington National Cathedral in April 2008 .

Faith-Inspired Organizations and Global Development Policy: Mapping Social Economic Development Work in Europe and Africa for the Workshop on Global Development with Faith Inspired Organizations in Africa and Europe, held in The Hague in June 2008 .


LUCE/SFS PUBLICATION AND SEMINAR

faith communities Engage the HIv/AIds crisis (November 5, 2007)The Berkley Center hosted a seminar to highlight the launch of a new report, Faith Communities Engage the HIV/AIDS Crisis: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward . The report maps the involvement of religious organizations and religious-secular cooperation around the global health crisis . It reviews the work of faith-inspired leaders and communities, in both global- and country-specific efforts to combat HIV/AIDS . It is directed both to practitioners and to academics, to those from faith-inspired communities interested in deepening their engagement with HIV/AIDS and to secular development professionals interested in exploring further collaboration with faith communities in their work on HIV/AIDS . The report is the first in the Berkley Center’s issues series designed to illuminate the role of religious actors across a range of pressing policy areas including gender, shelter, and corruption .

The seminar featured a presentation by Dr . Inon Schenker, Israel’s leading professional in HIV/AIDS prevention, and a discussion of Georgetown University’s HIV/AIDS Initiative . Dr . Schenker is a well-known researcher, senior consultant to government ministries, the IDF, UN, and other international agencies, and was the Founding Chair of The Jerusalem AIDS Project .

THE PARTICIPANTS

Dr. Inon Schenker, Founding Chair of The Jerusalem AIDS ProjectKatherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center and Visiting Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown UniversityLucy Keough, World Bank Retired Senior Operational OfficerJessica Raper, Special Assistant for Policy Planning to the President of Georgetown University

RELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT DATABASE

Development professionals, academics, and the media often neglect the role of religion in development work because of a lack of reliable information . The figures gathered by the OECD, the UN, and other organizations draw heavily on government and census data that ignore religion . Hence, the programmatic work of religious groups often goes unnoticed . The Religion and Development Database, hosted on the Berkley Center website and supported by the Luce/SFS program, maps religious organizations, programs, and events related to development around the world and across religions .


Religion and Global Development (continued)

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symposium on global development and faith-Inspired Organizations

in the muslim World (December 17, 2007) The Berkley Center, and the Center for International and Regional Studies of the School of Foreign Service in Qatar, hosted a symposium in Doha on the role of faith-based organizations in global development in the Muslim World . The meeting brought together a combination of practitioners and leading academics to review major issues facing the Muslim-majority countries . Major foci at the Doha meeting included building better knowledge of institutional arrangements; exploring relationships among public, private, and religiously inspired actors; financing issues, including the new landscape after September 11, 2001; and approaches to leading issues in development, such as children, education, health, and gender .

THE PARTICIPANTS

KEyNOTE sPEAKERs:

Azhari Gasim Ahmed, Senior Economist, Islamic Development BankHany El Banna, Co-founder and President, Islamic Relief Worldwide

cO-cONvENERs:

Mehran Kamrava, Center for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown UniversityKatherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center and Visiting Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University

PARTIcIPANTs:

Mona Alia, Gerhart Center, American University in CairoAbdullah H. Alnameh, Qatar FoundationHady Amr, The Brookings InstitutionRoksana Bahramitash, University of MontrealNoureddine Benmalek, High Communication Authority, Morocco Patrice Brodeur, University of Montreal Paul Dhalla, Aga Khan Development NetworkKhaled N. Diab, Qatar Red CrescentSaad Eddin Ibrahim, Arab Democracy Center Omnia Nour, Reach Out to Asia Salman Shaikh, Office of Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-MissnedAli Yurtsever, Rumi Forum

“If you see civil society as the

public space that lies between

the family and the state, the

closer into the family space

you move, the more women

are involved.”

Saad Eddin Ibrahim Arab Democracy Center



Religion and Global Development (continued)

LUCE/SFS PUBLICATION AND SEMINAR

Religion, Women, and development (April 10, 2008) This Berkley Center seminar marked the publication of Challenges of Change: Faith, Gender, and Development, in advance of the Washington National Cathedral’s Women, Faith, and Development Summit to End Global Poverty . Both events were premised on the idea that women play critically important roles in development, as does religion, and that an examination of the interaction of both is long overdue .

Challenges of Change addresses the relationship between faith, gender, and development in the world’s poorer societies . It explores social changes that accompany development, using religion as a lens to focus on how women observe, understand, and influence these transformative processes . The report also explores relationships among religion, gender, and the international development agenda, mapping what we know and what we do not about this nexus, and inquiring into emerging issues and debates .

THE PARTICIPANTS

Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center and Visiting Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown UniversityAlisha Bhagat, Luce/SFS Fellow, Graduate Student, School of Foreign ServiceJean Duff, Deputy Director of the Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, Washington National CathedralShareen Joshi, Visiting Professor of International Development, Georgetown UniversityMarjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Georgetown University

LUCE/SFS SYMPOSIUM

global development with faith-Inspired Organizations

in Africa and Europe (June 24–25, 2008) Engaged practitioners met in the Hague to take stock of the wide range of ongoing work by different organizations that are inspired by religious faith and to explore the policy implications that emerge from their interactions with development organizations . The specific focus of the workshop addressed emerging challenges, including questions arising because of different perspectives on cultural practices, issues around governance and accountability, links to sectoral programs supported by international financing agencies, and practical issues such as blockages in funding channels . A major background paper exploring these issues will be published in Fall 2008 .

WORLD FAITHS DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE

The World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) was established in 2000, at the initiative of James D . Wolfensohn, then President of the World Bank, and Lord Carey, then Archbishop of Canterbury . Its aim is to facilitate a dialogue, catalyze action on poverty and development among people from different religions, and improve communications between individuals and international development institutions . Since 2006, WFDD has been based at the Berkley Center under the direction of Katherine Marshall .

THE PARTICIPANTS

cO-cONvENERs:

Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center and Visiting Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown UniversityGerrie Ter Haar, Chair in Religion and Development, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

PARTIcIPANTs:

Welmoet Boender, Stichting Oikos Omer Caha, Denez Feneri Association Richard Clark, TearfundJacques Dinan, Caritas Africa Peter David Grant, Tearfund Muhammed Haron, University of Botswana Willem Jansen, Stichting Stek Nigussu Legesse, Inter-Church Aid Commission, EthiopiaRichard Marsh, ImpACT Coalition Dele Oluwu, Redeemed Christian Church of God, NigeriaJohn Padwick, Organization of African Instituted Churches, Kenya Lisette van der Wel, Policy Advisor of Interchurch Organization for Development Co-operation


scholars and policymakers spend considerable

effort exploring the effects of domestic politics

on international affairs. The domestic-international

nexus is especially complex and poorly understood

when it comes to religion.

Since the 1960s, scholars and commentators have noted the persistence of “civil religion” as an element of US foreign policy, most evident in the frequent invocation of biblical imagery in foreign policy rhetoric, especially prominent in the wake of September 11, 2001 . Over the last decade, the religious sources of US foreign policy have become more complex, infusing policy areas as different as human rights, global health, religious freedom, and the environment . Political-religious dynamics in other countries have received much less atten-tion . In Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere, pressures for democratization have increased the impact of domestic religious forces on states and their foreign policies, while globaliza-tion and migration flows have strengthened transnational religious communities mobilized around international policy agendas .

The Luce/SFS Program on the Religious Sources of Foreign Policy places the US experience in broader perspective . Through teaching and research, it builds knowledge about the impact of religion on foreign policy, while its outreach activities bring together thought leaders and policymakers to explore the practical challenges posed by the impact of domestic religious forces on international affairs . In 2006–07, the Luce/SFS program centered on the experi-ence of the United States and Europe—on the prominence of evangelicals in the US and the impact of migration on the religion-foreign policy nexus on both sides of the Atlantic . In 2007–08, the focus was the international politics of religious freedom—specifically, the ways in which different national understandings of religion and its governance are impacting national foreign policies and international diplomacy .

LUCE/SFS SYMPOSIUM

Religious freedom and Us foreign Policy: Taking stock and Looking

forward The Luce/SFS Program on the Religious Sources of Foreign Policy initiated a series of three symposia ten years after the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 . The symposia are co-organized with the Institute for Global Engagement and will culminate in recommendations for the next US administration .

The first two symposia were held during the 2007–08 academic year: Why Religious Freedom? The Origins and Promise of the International Religious Freedom Act (February 25, 2008); and US International Religious Freedom Policy: Assessing the Results (April 21, 2008) .

The third symposium in the series was held in Fall 2008: The Future of US International Religious Freedom Policy: Recommendations for a New Administration (October 10, 2008) .


Religious Sources of Foreign Policy

LUCE/SFS SYMPOSIUM

Why Religious freedom? The Origins and Promise of the

International Religious freedom Act. (February 25, 2008) This symposium examined the origins of US international religious freedom policy with an in-depth look into the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) of 1998 . IRFA mandated the promotion of religious liberty around the world as a component of US foreign policy . It grew out of an extended domestic political debate that saw the emergence of a supportive cross-party coalition, backed by major religious groups, and committed to the struggle against religious persecution around the world .

Thomas F. Farr, a former American diplomat, is a Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, where he directs the Religion and US Foreign Policy program . Farr served as the first director of the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom from 1999–2003 . He is widely published, including “Diplomacy in an Age of Faith,” in Foreign Affairs (March/April 2008), and World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty is Vital to American National Security (Oxford University Press, 2008) .

THE PARTICIPANTS

PANEL 1: The DebaTe Over The InTernaTIOnal relIgIOus FreeDOm acT OF 1998

Nina Shea, Center for Religious Freedom Laura Bryant Hanford, a principal author of the IRFAAllen Hertzke, University of Oklahoma Moderator: Michael Cromartie, Vice President of the Ethics and Public Policy CenterRespondent: Jeremy Gunn, ACLU Religious Freedom Program

PANEL 2: The sOcIal, ecOnOmIc, anD POlITIcal ImPacT OF relIgIOus lIberTy WOrlDWIDe

José Casanova, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center, and Professor of Sociology, Georgetown UniversityDaniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame Brian Grim, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Moderator: Thomas Farr, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center, and Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PANEL 3: InTernaTIOnal PersPecTIves: chIna, russIa, anD cenTral eurOPe

Liu Peng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Viktor Yelensky, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Moderator: Robert T. Smith, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young UniversityRespondent: Lauren Homer, International Law Group

Professor Tom Farr


LUCE/SFS SYMPOSIUM

Us International Religious freedom Policy:

Assessing the Results (April 21, 2008) Scholars and policy makers met to discuss the impact of US international religious freedom policy, American interests, and the response of the Muslim world in particular . Discussion centered on the evolution of US policy over the past decade and on the tension between US commitment to religious freedom as a key human right and criticism of US efforts as a challenge to the sovereignty of other states and societies .

PARTICIPANTS

PANEL 1: us FOreIgn POlIcy PracTITIOners: The sTaTe DeParTmenT, The cOmmIssIOn, cOngress, anD The WhITe hOuse

Robert A. Seiple, Former US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Tad Stahnke, Director of the Fighting Discrimination Program at Human Rights First David Killion, Senior Staff of House Committee on Foreign Affairs William Inboden, Senior Vice-President of the Legatum Institute Moderator: Chris Seiple, Council on Faith & International Affairs

PANEL 2: us FOreIgn POlIcy schOlars: InTernaTIOnal relIgIOus FreeDOm POlIcy, amerIcan IDeals, anD amerIcan naTIOnal InTeresTs

Ruth Wedgwood, Director of International Law and Organizations Program, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International StudiesPhilip Gordon, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy, Brookings InstitutionJoshua Muravchik, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise InstituteWalter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign RelationsModerator: Thomas Farr, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center, and Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University


Religious Sources of Foreign Policy (continued)

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Islam, constitutions & durable democracy:

The cases Of Iraq & Afghanistan (September 11, 2007) The symposium focused on the fragile democratic experiments in these two countries . In Iraq, sectarian conflict abetted by foreign terrorists was putting enormous pressure on a weak governing coalition . In Afghanistan, a resurgent Taliban was challenging the writ of Kabul’s democratic government . The event looked to address the roles the two countries’ respective constitutions, written by nationals but brokered by the United States, are playing in preserving and strengthening democracy, and the implications for American foreign policy .

PARTICIPANTS

Intisar Rabb, PhD candidate, Princeton UniversityMuqtedar Khan, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of DelawareWilliam L. Saunders, Jr., Senior Fellow and Director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Human Life and BioethicsRobert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Founder and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton UniversityModerator: Thomas Farr, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center, and Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

“History suggests that it may be

possible to have religious freedom

without democracy, but it is not

possible to have democracy without

religious freedom.”

Robert P. George

Report of the Symposium

on Islam, Constitutions,

& Durable Democracy:

The Cases of Iraq &

Afghanistan.

“…Iraq has an added challenge

in that its constitution not only

establishes a state religion, but

it incorporates a legal system

of religious origin as a source

of state law.”

Intisar Rabb


LUCE/SFS SYMPOSIUM

Religion in Israeli society, Politics, and foreign Policy (January 17, 2008) The Berkley Center, in cooperation with the Program on Jewish Civilization, hosted a panel to examine the effects of religion and religious pluralism in Israeli domestic politics and foreign policy . The state of Israel lies at the center of US foreign policy concerns in the greater Middle East . Its strategic location, its volatile political-security relationship with the Palestinian Authority, and the depth of sympathy for Israel among Americans all lend the country a particular salience in any calculus of US interests . Cutting across all these issues, however, is one that receives far less attention—the health of the Israeli state as a self-described religious democracy .

The symposium addressed three core questions:

1 . To what extent is Israel a secular democracy, a Jewish state, or both?

2 . How is religious freedom protected in Israeli law?

3 . Is Israel today marked by an increasing religious pluralism?

PARTICIPANTS

Chair: Thomas Farr, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center, and Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown UniversityRabbi Michael Melchior, Knesset member, Rabbi of a Jerusalem congregation and Chief Rabbi of NorwayDavid Elcott, lecturer and organizational consultant, Director of US Interreligious Affairs, American Jewish CommitteeRabbi Avi Shafran, Director of Public Affairs, Agudath Israel of America

“There are many people who look at

Israel as a spearhead in a kind of Judeo-

Christian battle of civilizations against the

civilization of Islam. It is a very dangerous

concept. There is no future in it, there is no

hope in it. Israel should be a bridgehead

of a coalition of civilizations.”

Rabbi Michael Melchior


Religious Sources of Foreign Policy (continued)

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Religion, migration, and foreign Policy: Tensions in Immigration

Policy and Immigrant Integration (March 14, 2008) How important is the role of religion in the integration of immigrants in the United States? Does the presence of immigrants from other religious backgrounds present challenges to mainstream denominations? Are there significant differences between the immigration views of religious leaders and the rank and file members of the denominations?

In collaboration with the Institute for the Study of International Migration, the symposium participants engaged these questions . The event addressed tensions in immigration policy and explored the religious dimension of immigrant integration, particularly the impact of immigrants on religious diversity in the United States .

THE PARTICIPANTS

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Diocese of BrooklynDr. Richard Land, President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty CommissionDr. Peggy Levitt, Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Wellesley CollegeDr. Michael Werz, visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown UniversityModerator: Dr. Susan Martin, Donald G. Herzberg Associate Professor of International Migration and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

The Institute for the Study of International Migration, founded in 1998, is part of the Edmund A . Walsh School of Foreign Service and affiliated with the Law Center at George-town University . ISIM focuses on all aspects of international migration, including the causes of, and potential responses to, population movements, immigration and refugee law and policy, comparative migration studies, the integration of immigrants into their host societies, and the effects of international migration on social, economic, demographic, foreign policy, and national security concerns . Dr . Susan Martin, Donald G . Herzberg Associate Professor of International Migration, is the Institute’s Director .


The Luce/sfs Program on Religion and International

Affairs is a collaborative venture between the

Edmund A. Walsh school of foreign service and the

berkley center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs,

generously supported by the Henry R. Luce foundation.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Thomas Banchoff

Associate Professor, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, and Director, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Carol Lancaster

Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, andDirector, Mortara Center for International Studies

LUCE/SFS STEERING COMMITTEE

Robert Gallucci

Dean, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Jennifer Ward

Associate Dean for Programs and Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Jacques Berlinerblau

Director, Program for Jewish Civilization

Daniel Byman

Director, Center for Peace and Security Studies

Susan Martin

Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration

John Voll

Professor of Islamic History in the School of Foreign Service and Associate Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

Casimir Yost

Director, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

Thomas Banchoff, Director of the

Berkley Center

2007–08 GRADUATE FELLOWS

fall 2007

Meredith Connelly

Carrie Monahan

Jehan Balba

spring 2008

Vanda de la Mata

Alisha Bhagat

Alex Thurston


People and Partners

Robert Gallucci, Dean of the

Edmund A. Walsh School of

Foreign Service

Jacques Berlinerblau, Director of

the Program for Jewish Civilization

RELIGION AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS AT THE EDMUND A. WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE

The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is the leading center for the study of the Muslim world and a leader in Western-Islamic dialogue .

The Program for Jewish Civilization is unique in its emphasis on the global dimension of Judaism, its ethical aspects, and its interactions with other cultures and faith traditions .

The Mortara Center for International Studies seeks to advance scholarship and inform policy by combining the expertise of scholars and the experience of practitioners .

The Center for Peace and Security Studies explores the full range of military and non- military factors that influence peace and security issues around the world .

The School of Foreign Service is also home to leading interdisciplinary area studies centers and programs, including the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the BMW Center for German and European Studies, the Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Asian Studies Program .

John Esposito, Director of the

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center

for Muslim-Christian Understanding


Edmund A. Walsh school

of foreign service

301 Bunn Intercultural Center

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berkley center for Religion,

Peace, and World Affairs

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http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu

The Luce/sfs Program on

Religion and International Affairs

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