Annual Report 2010 - 2011 About the Berkley Center

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, created within the Office of the President in 2006, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics, and public life. Through research, teaching, and service, the Center explores global challenges of democracy and human rights; economic and social development; international diplomacy; and interreligious understanding. Two premises guide the Center’s work: that a deep examination of faith and values is critical to address these challenges, and that the open engagement of religious and cultural traditions with one another can promote peace. The rapid growth of the Center has been made possible through the generosity of William R. Berkley, a member of the University Board of Directors, and other members of the Georgetown community.

“The Berkley Center is critical to Georgetown’s efforts to advance dialogue and understanding across the world’s countries, cultures, and religious traditions.”

Dr. John J. DeGioia georgetown university president contents

1 | from the director 4

2 | Student engagement 5

The Doyle Engaging Difference Initiative 6

3 | Strategic Partners 8

4 | knowledge Resources 9

5 | Programs 10

Religion and Ethics in World Politics 10 Globalization, Religions, and the Secular 12 Religion, Conflict, and Peace 14 The Church and Interreligious Dialogue 16 Law, Religion, and Values 18 Religion and Global Development 20 Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy 22 Religious Freedom Project 24

6 | Staff & Campus Partners 26

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 3 from the Director

The Student Dimension

“What do you teach?”

As of this year, we can answer this in some new ways. Our faculty have always taught a wide variety of courses for Georgetown students. In 2010-11 we pursued three innovations.

A Certificate. In January 2011, the Center announced an undergraduate certificate on Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs, to be offered through the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. The certificate, the equivalent of a minor, gives students an opportunity to take courses at the intersection of religion, politics, and society that culminate with a capstone seminar. The certificate grows out of collaboration between the Center and the SFS, supported by a grant from the Luce Foundation.

Collaborative Courses. With the support of the Doyle Engaging Tolerance Initiative, we created a new course model this past year. Collaborative, four-credit seminars give students an opportunity to cooperate as a group, with a faculty member, in the conduct of original research and the production of a report for publication. Two courses in Spring 2011 addressed “Business, Values, and Law” and “The Future of Track-Two Diplomacy.”

Summer Research Fellowships. In Summer 2010, the Center launched a new summer fellowship program that supports student-led research on education and social justice around the world. Hosted by Jesuit institutions, the students conduct interviews and gather evidence about innovative anti-poverty efforts. On their return they publish a report under faculty supervision. A first set of fellows conducted research in Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines.

Through our courses and these programs, the Center is exploring new forms of teaching and learning, both inside and outside the classroom. Students also work with faculty across the Center’s program areas and in the production of publications and on-line resources.

You can read more about our student programs and other Center activities in the pages that follow. Other important milestones in 2010-11 included: the inauguration of a multiyear Religious Freedom Project in collaboration with the Templeton Foundation; the completion of a series of six global workshops on religion and development, supported by the Luce Foundation; a series of short courses for military officers on religion and world affairs, also supported by Luce; ongoing collaboration with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Building Bridges seminar, a high level Christian-Muslim dialogue; and the third in a series of dialogues with Chinese government officials about religion and world affairs.

Thomas Banchoff Berkley Center Director

4 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 2 | Student engagement

Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs Certificate

Starting in Fall 2011, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service will offer a certificate on Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs in collaboration with the Berkley Center.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 and the struggle against international terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Muslim-Hindu tensions in South Asia, protests by Buddhist monks in Burma–these and other global issues have a strong faith-related dimension. They also intersect with long-running ethical questions in international relations, including just war, social justice, and human rights.

The certificate, the equivalent of a minor, will give students an opportunity to explore these issues across three thematic areas: Faith and Ethics in International Relations; Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective; and Religion in History and Culture. It will culminate in a capstone seminar organized around student research and an annual spring colloquium.

Education and Social Justice Project

In early 2010 the Berkley Center collaborated with the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service and with Rodney Jacob (B ‘86), a member of the Board of Regents, to create the Education and Social Justice Project to engage students and build knowledge about the deep connections between global challenges of poverty and education. Only through better access to education will the world’s poor be able to seize opportunities in an increasingly global economy. While policy analysts have documented the widespread failure of governments to meet this imperative, we still know relatively little about successful local efforts to advance economic and social development through education.

The project provides students with summer research fellowships to travel abroad and conduct in-depth examinations of innovative initiatives, with a focus on the work of Jesuit secondary and post-secondary institutions. Under faculty supervision, the students gather information through interviews, analyze best practices, and share their reports and conclusions with a wider global audience.

In the program’s first year, three students were hosted by St. Aloysius Gonzaga School in Nairobi, Kenya; Ateneo de Manila University in Manila, Philippines; and the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. Their report brings together the main results of the field work, including background and analysis of each of the initiatives and excerpts from extended interviews with educators and activists in each country.

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The Doyle Engaging Difference Initiative

Engagement with cultural and religious diversity is a centerpiece of the Georgetown educational experience. Since 2006, the Center has developed three undergraduate programs that promote this engagement, both inside and outside the classroom.

The Undergraduate Fellows Seminars brings faculty and students together for joint D.C.- based research projects that explore the broader political and policy implications of cultural and religious diversity. The Junior Year Abroad Network links students studying abroad and their encounters with cultures around the world back to the Georgetown community. And the Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding program tracks the knowledge and attitudes of students around interfaith and intercultural issues over the course of their Georgetown careers.

Since 2009, these three programs have been part of the Doyle Engaging Difference Initiative, a campus-wide collaboration between the Berkley Center, the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), and Georgetown College, designed to promote tolerance and intellectual engagement with diversity in the curriculum and in co-curricular activities. The Initiative is made possible through the generosity of William J. Doyle (C’72), a member of the Georgetown University Board of Directors.

Undergraduate Fellows Seminars

The Undergraduate Fellows Program combines a four-credit seminar with a collaborative research project that addresses issues at the intersection of religion, culture, society, and politics. Along with the in-depth reading, writing, and dialogue typical of an upper-level seminar, student fellows conduct original research and formulate policy recommendations culminating in a written report. In Spring 2011, the Berkley Center hosted two Undergraduate Fellows Seminars:

Business, Values, and Law: Forging a New Dialogue, Professor Michael Kessler This seminar investigated the duties of businesses and their leaders toward the social good, the moral framework of economic activity, and the role of government and law in regulating business and financial transactions.

The Future of Track-Two Diplomacy, Professor Eric Patterson This seminar explored whether and how the United States can more effectively engage civil society abroad to advance foreign policy goals, using society-centered “track-two diplomacy.”

6 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Junior Year Abroad Network

About half of Georgetown undergraduates spend their junior year studying abroad in universities around the world and immersing themselves in local cultures. But too often their international experience is disconnected from the rest of their education. Their new knowledge and insights are not shared widely with students and faculty while they Junior Year Abroad Network are away or on their return. Annual Report 2009-2010 In 2006, the Berkley Center created the Junior Year Abroad Network to help address this problem. Through the network, students post letters online with their observations about the intersection of religion, culture, society, and politics in their host countries. On their return, they get together to share their experiences and publish a report on their findings. So far, more than 240 students in more than 50 countries have partici- pated in JYAN. This year, we have introduced a new web-based feature facilitating stu- dent and faculty comments on student letters which helps to advance student-faculty dialogue on critical issues in today’s world. 1 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY JUNIOR YEAR ABROAD NETWORK ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010 http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/projects/junior-year-abroad-network

“The experience in the Pakistani refugee settlement (in Jodhpur, India) overwhelmed me with questions and concerns about democracy, identity, justice, and religious tolerance. By engaging with the refugees, I will be able to use my voice to share their story and use the knowledge gained from this interaction to inform my understanding of social justice.” Lauren Reese Georgetown College 2012

Undergraduate Learning and Interreligious Understanding

The Berkley Center and Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) are analyzing the results of a five-year longitudinal study to track student attitudes towards religious diversity and their evolution in response to experiences at Georgetown in and outside the classroom. The project aims to help educators at Georgetown, throughout the United States, and around the world identify best practices in building tolerance. In 2010-11, final interviews and a comprehensive senior survey were administered to the students who were graduating. Insights from their four years at Georgetown will be analyzed and then outlined in a project report to be prepared for publication in 2011-12.

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World Faiths Development Dialogue

Established in 1998 by World Bank President James Wolfensohn and Archbishop of Canterbury Lord George Carey, the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) is an NGO based at the Center bridging the worlds of faith and secular development and supporting research and dialogue on global policy challenges. Katherine Marshall, who leads the Center’s Program on Religion and Global Development, serves as Executive Director.

Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs

Since 2006, the Berkley Center and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) have worked closely with the Henry Luce Foundation. The Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs has supported two program areas—Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy and Religion and Global Development—as well as the Center’s outreach to government and other academic centers and institutes around the world.

World Economic Forum

In 2007, Georgetown and the Center began a collaboration with the Geneva-based World Economic Forum around issues of faith, values, and the global agenda. In January 2010, the Center co-produced a report on the topic released at the Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. In September 2011, Georgetown and the Forum will convene a conference on campus to explore efforts to close values deficits in business and government.

The John Templeton Foundation

In January 2011, the Center received a generous grant from the Templeton Foundation to create a Religious Freedom Project. Led by the Center’s Thomas Farr and Timothy Shah, the project seeks to advance the study of religious freedom as an interdisciplinary field. A series of conferences and publications will examine its significance for efforts to advance human rights, democracy, and economic and social development.

Washington Post On Faith

Georgetown/On Faith is an online partnership between the Berkley Center and the Washington Post designed to provide knowledge and inform debate at the intersection of religion, politics, and society. It features faculty blogs including Katherine Marshall’s Faith in Action, as well as links to the Center’s online Knowledge Resources. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/georgetown-on-faith.

8 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 4 | knowledge resources

The Center’s Knowledge Resources serves as a trusted destination for students, scholars, policymakers, and citizens who want to learn more about religion and world affairs. The fruit of collaboration between Center faculty and students, the Resources consist of: overviews of the world’s major religious traditions; country and topic resource pages; interviews, syllabi, case studies, and high school lesson plans; and a mapping of organizations and people working at the intersection of religion, peace, and world affairs around the globe. Additions this year include:

Interview Series

The Center has published more than one hundred in-depth interviews with leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working at the intersection of religion and world affairs. The Center’s Katherine Marshall and the staff of the World Faiths Development Dialogue have led the effort.

Syllabi Project

The last decade has seen an explosion of teaching about religion outside traditional theology and religious studies departments. A new online resource gathers hundreds of syllabi from Georgetown and other colleges and universities that address religion, politics, and society. Users can search and sort courses across disciplines.

Religion and International Affairs Network

In the United States and around the world, interdisciplinary research institutes and programs have sprung up to address religion’s changing global role. This online resource provides an overview of the most important centers and tracks their major events and publications. It is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.

http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/resources

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 9 5 | Programs Religion and Ethics in World Politics

Globalization and the resurgence of religion in public life have brought faith and values into politics in new ways, in the United States and around the world. The program examines the political and policy significance of religion and ethics, with an emphasis on democratic institutions and value conflict.

September 2010

Reverend Jim Wallis of Sojourners taught a virtual course on “Faith, Social Justice, and Public Life.” The course, which featured Elizabeth Warren and other prominent guest lecturers, is available on the Berkley Center website.

December 2010

Georgetown University hosted a third annual meeting with China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs S( ARA), one in a series of events designed to foster dialogue around issues of religion, culture, and society.

April 2011

Professor Thomas Banchoff and Princeton Professor Robert Wuthnow co-edited a book, Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights (Oxford University Press), in which scholars and specialists surveyed the ways in which human rights and religion interact.

10 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Religion in U.S.-Chinese Relations

Thomas Banchoff The United States-China relationship is the most important faculty leader in the world today. China’s rise as an economic, military, and political power marks a fundamental shift in international about specific issues, developed some shared insights, but affairs. How China evolves and the United States responds also brought basic underlying differences into focus. will shape both bilateral ties and prospects for global peace and prosperity into the future. The Chinese government acknowledges the freedom of belief but insists on state oversight of worship and practice. There are two particularly difficult problems to navigate. Religious communities are required to acknowledge The first is a political divide. China’s system of one-party rule the leading role of the Communist party and be free of does not tolerate any form of organized political opposition; foreign influence. This is the logic of one-party rule, but the Communist leadership directs the country’s political, also an outgrowth of China’s historical experience under economic, and social development. This contrasts strongly imperialism, when Western powers supported Christian with the United States, with its multiparty democracy, missionary work in the country. China’s leaders reject any market economy, and civil society. This political divide, and significant public role for religion in their society. the different values that inform it, will be an ongoing source of tension in U.S.-Chinese relations. The U.S. model of state-religion relations is very different. The first amendment to the Constitution prohibits a political A second, related problem is a knowledge gap. Chinese and establishment of religion while protecting its free exercise. U.S. leaders and citizens know too little about the historical Religious liberty extends beyond belief and worship to and institutional sources of their differences. Ignorance encompass all manner of engagement in social and political compounds mutual suspicions and deepens the political affairs. In U.S. history, in contrast to China, religion has not divide in practice. Of course, fuller understanding will never been viewed as a threat to state authority or an instrument eliminate deep differences on human rights and other of foreign powers. It has emerged as a core component of issues. But a better grasp of those differences and their civil society supportive of democratic institutions. causes can help manage relations peacefully into the future. At the Center we are tackling an important dimension of The ongoing dialogue with SARA is a critical part of the those relations: religion. Center’s Project on Religion in China and the United States. The project has two other main components. The Center In 2008-2010 we held three dialogues with China’s State hosts a postdoctoral fellow in religious studies from China Administration for Religious Affairs S( ARA), the national every year. And we are developing a set of bilingual on- bureaucracy that oversees religious life in the country. The line resources that map different constellations of religion, meetings, two in Washington, D.C., and one in Beijing, involved society, and politics in both countries. Dialogue and about ten participants from each side, a mixture of scholars and understanding matter most where culture and politics policy officials. Topics ranged from differences over religious diverge. We are pursuing our work with China in that spirit. freedom to the role of religious organizations in promoting economic and social development. We learned a great deal

Thomas Banchoff is Director of the Berkley Center and Associate Professor in the Government Department and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 11 Globalization, Religions, and the Secular

How does globalization intersect with the resurgence of public religion? To what extent do we live in a post-secular world? The Globalization, Religions, and the Secular program brings together leading scholars across disciplines to explore these and related questions.

August 2010

Professor José Casanova gave a series of lectures on the sociology of religion at the seventh annual Summer Institute for the Scientific Study of Religion in Beijing, China. The lectures, currently available on the Berkley Center website, will be published as a book.

December 2010

Professors Casanova and Banchoff convened a workshop in New Delhi, India on globalization, the resurgence of religion, the transformation of the secular, and its implications for the US, India, and China. These essays are being prepared for publication in a volume entitled The United States, India and China in a Post-Secular World.

January 2011

Professors Casanova and Banchoff convened a workshop at Oxford University on the changing role of religion in American and British society and politics. Supported by the Luce Foundation, the workshop examined the shifting boundary between the religious and the secular, and responses to the growth of Muslim minorities.

12 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY The United States, India, and China in a Post-Secular World

José Casanova faculty leader Are we witnessing the global consolidation of a “Secular Age” or the emergence of a “Post-Secular World?” Is America “exceptional” or is Europe the exception to the that religion is a private and public good that is best served “desecularization of the world?” What should be the role of by being autonomous from the state. But the Indian religion in domestic politics, in foreign affairs, and in global model of religious pluralism, based on categorical group governance? In the last two decades, these have become identities or “communalism,” is markedly different from hotly disputed issues in academia, in the media, as well as in the radically individualist American model of religious public policy forums. “denominationalism.”

Even the field of International Relations, the most secular China, by contrast, is a one-party authoritarian state with of all domains, is being shaken by the global resurgence a Confucian tradition, no majority religion, and a very of religion. Yet there is no emerging consensus about the diverse religious landscape. The post-imperial state with meaning of this resurgence and “realists” insist rightly its progressive goal of modernizing the Chinese nation that national states, not religious communities, still made China “secular” by disestablishing the imperial dominate world politics. But governments everywhere must Confucian state cult. But it also became pronouncedly increasingly grapple with religious actors, identities, and “secularist” through aggressive intervention wherein the issues in both domestic and foreign affairs. This is certainly state has officially recognized and regulates five “religions” the case in the United States, in India, and in China, three (Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism). emerging global powers which will likely play a crucial role Every other form of religion is in principle illegal, must lead in shaping global developments in the 21st Century. an “underground” existence, and is subject to repression.

All three countries are secular states, with very different These three countries are facing the increasing mobilization systems of religious pluralism and different modes of of religious communities around social and political regulation of religion in society. As post-colonial states, agendas, as well as the need to redefine their national all three have developed their systems in dynamic identity in a globalizing, post-secular world. To explore contradistinction with European patterns. Today, all three these issues comparatively, the Berkley Center has gathered are facing the need to reassess their secular settlements a working group of prominent scholars of India, China, and and their religious civilizational heritages. the United States. They had a first meeting in Shanghai, at Fudan University, in August 2009, and met again in The U.S. and India are multiparty democracies with, December 2010 at the Center for the Study of Developing respectively, Christian and Hindu assertive majorities Societies in Delhi. An edited volume with contributions but with vibrant systems of religious pluralism and a of all the participants is being prepared for publication, significant multiplicity of religious minorities. In both cases offering a rare and timely three-way comparison between secular neutrality is understood as a condition for the the emerging global powers. protection of religious pluralism, under the assumption

José Casanova is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 13 Religion, Conflict, and Peace

The Religion, Conflict, and Peace program examines the intersection of religion with other cultural, social, and political factors in the generation and resolution of conflict. Activities include the production of critical case studies and the development of knowledge resources for government professionals.

December 2010

Professor Eric Patterson led a simulation planning game, Reconstruction Operations in Highly Religious Societies: The Afghan Case, at the U.S. Naval Academy. During 2010- 2011, the game was also played at the U.S. Military Academy, the National Defense University, the Marine Corps University, and the Armed Forces Chaplain Center.

January 2011

Professor Patterson convened a National War College faculty seminar on how to integrate resources on religion and world affairs into the professional military curriculum. Participants came from across the military academies, colleges, and universities.

March-April 2011

The Berkley Center partnered with the Joint Staff and the U.S. Air Force to provide two conferences for over 100 USAF and Army chaplains. The first, held at the Pentagon, was the second annual conference for senior combatant command chaplains. The second, held at the Armed Forces Chaplains Center, was sponsored by the Air Force chaplaincy.

14 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Putting Knowledge About Religion to Use

How can a better understanding of religion help the U.S. armed forces contribute to peace and security?

Eric Patterson faculty leader Since 9/11, U.S. foreign policy has focused on national security challenges recurring in highly religious, generally Muslim, societies. However, the government has never had a structured framework for understanding the nexus of For the past two years we have worked with NDU’s Institute for religion and security, much less the wider role of religion the Study of National Security Ethics and Leadership. Located in contemporary international life. Thus, government at Ft. McNair in Washington, D.C., NDU is the premiere senior agencies desperately need frameworks for understanding service school of the armed forces. Prototypes of the Afghan the role that religious factors play in world affairs today. Provincial Reconstruction Simulation were played at NDU and now the game is part of their course on Religion and World This goes beyond terrorism, sectarian conflict, and ethno- Affairs; faculty from Georgetown and NDU have lectured in religious war to include the efforts of faith-based actors one another’s classrooms. in development, the impact of religious freedom policy on other U.S. foreign policy goals (e.g. as regards China or In November 2009, the Pentagon issued a new directive Saudi Arabia), and the relationship between religion and on the role of chaplains as religious advisors to their democracy in local contexts. commanders. The new directive indicates that chaplains may provide counsel to their commanders on the religious My new book, Politics in a Religious World: Building a Religiously context of the theater and may meet with local religious Literate U.S. Foreign Policy (Continuum, 2011), shows why past leaders—all with the intent to promote peace. In addition foreign policy paradigms have neglected faith and how we to individual speaking engagements, in the past year the can change course for the future. The book also highlights Center has co-sponsored three chaplains’ conferences to how the government can use the rich religious capital of provide a set of resources on religion and global issues to American society to aid in this effort. the chaplaincy, equipping them for this new role.

The Berkley Center seeks to change the way the next The Center has now developed instructional materials, generation of government leaders understands religion in including syllabi, case studies, and film guides on religion, the world today. With funding from the Henry Luce Initiative conflict, and peace; all are freely available on our website. on Religion and International Affairs, we have engaged with partners at the National Defense University (NDU) and in the military chaplaincy.

Eric Patterson is Associate Director of the Berkley Center and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government.

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 15 The Church and Interreligious Dialogue

Since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), the Roman Catholic Church has been a key player in interreligious dialogue. The Center examines the Church’s interaction with other religious traditions as well as the challenges posed by increasing cultural and religious pluralism worldwide.

October 2010

In partnership with the Interfaith Youth Core, the Center worked with the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships to give 300 student leaders and university staff from across the country the skills to help improve interfaith cooperation on campus.

November 2010

The first in a series of four seminars on “Christian Theological Engagement with Islam” was held at Campion Hall, the Jesuit community in Oxford. The seminars enabled a group of Roman Catholic and Anglican scholars to consider questions of Christian response to key aspects of the faith and practice of Islam.

April 2011

Professor Jean-Luc Marion of the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the University of Chicago presented a talk at Georgetown entitled “What are the Roots of the Distinction between Theology and Philosophy?”

16 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Student Leadership in Interfaith Dialogue

University and college campuses are emerging as critical spaces for the advancement of interreligious and intercultural understanding. As globalization continues to progress and Chester Gillis the United States grows more culturally and religiously faculty leader diverse, institutions of higher learning have a key role to play in building knowledge and promoting the exchange of ideas. Leading universities must adapt their core educational across the country the skills necessary to help improve interfaith mission—forming tomorrow’s thinkers, citizens, and leaders— cooperation on campus. The Berkley Center facilitated some of to the imperatives of a world that is simultaneously more the training sessions on campus and created the online resource interconnected and more fragmented. As a globally engaged “Interfaith Dialogue on Campus” that tracks existing efforts to center for higher learning, Georgetown is committed to promote dialogue and cooperation at colleges and universities educating students from around the world both on the Hilltop around the country. and in locations around the world. And we are committed to “scholarship in action,” partnering students and faculty in the A second interfaith leadership training session will be held at common Jesuit mission of service for others whereby academic Georgetown in July 2011 as part of Georgetown’s participation learning on campus is connected to seeking solutions for in President Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service challenges confronting our global neighbors. Campus Challenge, formally launched in April 2011. This year- long initiative is designed to advance interfaith and community Many Georgetown students have taken the lead in developing cooperation on college and university campuses across the new initiatives that engage commonalities and differences United States around specific service priorities. across traditions and advance collaboration around issues of democracy and social justice–on campus, across the country, Georgetown students will focus on combating poverty and and around the world. The Berkley Center is helping to improving educational opportunity in the Washington, D.C. support the work of students who are participating in one community through a transformative program of action that such outreach, President Obama’s Interfaith and Community deepens connections between campus faith communities Service Campus Challenge. through interfaith service and furthers faculty-student interaction around faith, ethics, and social justice issues. This work will also In response to a recommendation by the President’s Advisory strengthen ties with the local community as we partner with Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to diverse faith groups in the Washington, D.C. area. We will create scale up interfaith service on campuses, in June 2010, the further web resources that enable this heightened connectivity Berkley Center participated in a White House session designed and a greater commitment to service and dialogue. to advance interfaith and community cooperation on college and university campuses across the United States. The dedication and energy of Georgetown students to seek solutions to such complex problems both in our local D.C. From October 22-26, 2010, the Chicago-based Interfaith community and around the world is both a testament to their Youth Core (IFYC) delivered an intensive leadership training at embrace of the Catholic, Jesuit ideals of Georgetown and their Georgetown University hosted by the White House Office of commitment to service of their neighbors in the new global Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The Institute gave reality of cultural and religious diversity. 200 student leaders and 100 campus faculty and staff allies from

Chester Gillis is the Dean of Georgetown College, a Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University, and a Senior Fellow in the Berkley Center.

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 17 Law, Religion, and Values

The program in Law, Religion, and Values supports teaching, research, and scholarly conferences that explore how religion and values legitimate, shape, and conflict with global political, cultural, and legal systems in transnational and comparative perspective.

November 2010

E.J. Dionne, Ross Douthat, and Damon Linker discussed the “Religious Lives of Political Leaders” addressing how politicians navigate conflicts between their religious beliefs and the demands of office and whether religious morality should influence views on social policy.

January 2011

Rebirth, a documentary about the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site and the post-9/11 lives of five people affected by the 9/11 attacks, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The Center is preparing companion educational materials addressing the interreligious challenges after 9/11.

March 2011

Over the course of the 2010-2011 academic year a series of four seminars on “Christian Theological Engagement with Islam” was held at Campion Hall, the Jesuit community in Oxford. The fourth seminar focused on religion and law in Islam and Christianity.

18 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY The Power of Film to Heal Interreligious Challenges

Disasters can bring communities together and rip them apart, exacerbating religious and cultural differences and tensions. Are there strategies to help community, political, and religious leaders keep peace and build understanding Michael Kessler after terrible catastrophes occur? The Center’s collaboration faculty leader with Project Rebirth is aiming to find the best answers to that question and equip community leaders with the resources their resilience as they work through tremendous loss, grief, and insight to help the healing process. and anger. Without intending to be, they become guides for our own journeys through life. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of working with a group of Georgetown alumni who have created a The Berkley Center is working with the Rebirth team to powerful film, Rebirth, about the aftermath of the September develop classroom and web-based resources for high 11th terrorist attacks. school teachers, college professors, and community discussion leaders to examine the challenges to intercultural Rebirth is a documentary about the rebuilding of the World and interreligious understanding after traumatic events, Trade Center site and five individuals whose lives were especially in the period after the September 11th attacks. changed forever by the September 11th attacks. After ten These teaching tools will examine the causes and impacts years of production, the film premiered at Sundance in of the attacks, the challenges they presented to intercultural January 2011 to a standing ovation and enthusiastic reviews. and interreligious tolerance, the successes and failures of recovery and reconciliation efforts, and the lessons we can Directed and co-produced by Jim Whitaker (C ‘90), Rebirth learn from the 9/11 recovery. was created as part of Project Rebirth, which plans to use the film’s profits to further honor and assist survivors of Georgetown’s collaboration with Project Rebirth also traumatic disasters. Brian Rafferty (C ‘79) serves as Chairman involves a partnership with Columbia University’s Center for of the Board of Project Rebirth, overseeing the philanthropic New Media Teaching and Learning and Georgetown’s Center support for the film and the development of long-term for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), which projects to support trauma and disaster recovery. has led the creation of multimedia tools and therapeutic content to students, disaster response teams, and health care On its own merits, the film is an amazing cinematic professionals. Georgetown’s Film and Media Studies Program production, but Rebirth also has great potential to open has engaged with Project Rebirth to explore the uses of film dialogue between diverse groups affected by the attacks of for social justice purposes. 9/11. The film portrays the horrendous impact of ideological terrorism that cuts across the spectrum of American societies. Our hope is that as the nation marks the tenth anniversary Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike, as well as persons from of the September 11th attacks, our work with the Rebirth many other cultural and religious groups, were harmed. team can provide educational resources for those who work in communities to mitigate the harms arising from Likewise, the film follows the rebuilding of lives over time traumatic events, harms which too often tear at the fabric of and is a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. society along ethnic, cultural, and religious lines. Jim Whitaker turns a mirror to the subjects and captures

Michael Kessler is Associate Director of the Berkley Center, a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Law Center

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 19 Religion and Global Development

The Berkley Center’s Religion and Global Development program tracks the engagement of religious communities around global policy challenges and brings together stakeholders to examine best practices and advance collaboration. The program is supported by the Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs.

January 2011

Professor Katherine Marshall convened a meeting of leaders from religious organizations, academics, and international development agencies in Dhaka, Bangladesh entitled “Global Development and Faith-Inspired Organizations in South and Central Asia.”

February 2011

Professors Marshall and Banchoff attended a meeting of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations to present the results of the four-year study on the role of faith- inspired organizations in development around the world and display the Center’s online knowledge resources related to religion and development.

March 2011

Professor Marshall convened a consultation on the faith dimensions of addressing global water needs with the aim of better understanding the actions and experiences of religious institutions and leaders in the water sector.

20 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Voices of Wisdom From Practice

It began as frustration. Over many years of leading teams of professionals working on international development, I found Katherine Marshall that their written outputs became increasingly technocratic faculty leader and cryptic. The form-based approach of reporting systems— with boxes to fill in and numbers and stark assessments to with Rajmohan Gandhi, Sister Joan Chittister, Sulak Sivaraksa, provide—made comparisons and aggregations possible, but Canon Gideon Byamugisha, and Father Dominique Peccoud it was nigh impossible to discern the complex, human stories that were not undertaken for a specific event. behind the work. The soul of what was happening seemed to be lost, yet when you asked someone about a country or The interview approach is at the heart of the work of the project or a problem, stories and insights poured out. World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD), which is housed at the Berkley Center. As we explore the work of faith-linked As the Berkley Center embarked on its ambitious groups in Cambodia, our interviews examine the complex explorations of the role that religious institutions and faith- issues at stake: What makes the faith link distinctive? What inspired people played in development, we wanted to are the different approaches to gender? Corruption? How capture the living wisdom of practitioners, but knew that do different actors see the risks and benefits of proselytizing writing papers might not be the best method. In institutions, that is linked to development work? writing may be carefully massaged, resulting in a blend of technocratic jargon and promotional prose. Producing an Over time we have developed our own technique. First, academic paper was not likely to merit the highest priority we take careful notes or record a conversation, and then for busy practitioners trying to run programs to change the write it up, not as a verbatim transcript but as a coherent world for the better. presentation. We then confer with the person we interviewed, often asking them to help clarify points or add Therefore for the first conference we ran, focused on the materials. In some cases, the individual prefers not to see United States, we told invited speakers that if they would talk the interview on the website, and we respect that. But the to us for an hour or so, we would do the grunt work of writing. great majority of people are delighted to see their ideas We would write it up, fill in the spaces, and let them edit a near presented in the interview format. Some people say it is the finished product. The result was a set of some ten interviews, first time they have felt truly listened to, and heard. polished and made available on the Berkley website. The 170 interviews now on the website are critical inputs for The results were fascinating and full of meat and insight. Our the program’s analytic work, and grist for meetings. They interviewees were amazed at how much they were able to are a gold-mine for research on the important and often convey in a short time. And we had fresh, living, usable material poorly understood work that faith-inspired organizations that touched directly on the issues we were trying to understand. and individuals contribute to the field of development. The issues are always complex, and the nuance of dialogue The Berkley Center interview series has developed from enables progress towards better understanding. That is there. Most of the interviews are undertaken for a specific what the interviews help us to accomplish. event or meeting, but we also interview interesting people as we encounter them. Thus, we have wonderful interviews

Katherine Marshall is Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center, and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Government.

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 21 Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy

Both the practice and analysis of U.S. foreign policy have traditionally marginalized religious questions. With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, the program in Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy explores the role of religion in U.S. policy, with special attention to issues of human rights and international religious freedom.

October 2010

Professor Thomas Farr convened a symposium on religious freedom and U.S. national security. Panelists discussed the presence or absence of religious concerns in American foreign policy and then examined the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq in particular.

March 2011

Professor Farr’s Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Program brought together panels of Jewish, Islamic, and Christian scholars and practitioners to discuss the merits and promotion of the American approach to religion in politics and society.

June 2011

Professor Farr testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affair’s Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights, at a hearing convened to discuss H.R. 1856, “International Religious Freedom Act Amendments of 2011.”

22 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY New Beginnings

The 2010-2011 academic year was marked by culmination and new beginnings. First, the John Templeton Foundation, having sought and received recommendations from some of the world’s leading scholars and policy experts, decided Thomas Farr to invest $2 million in a Berkley Center project to advance faculty leader the study of religious freedom. The Religious Freedom Project will target a series of issues related to religious the relationships between politics and religion in Iran, Iraq, liberty, including its relationship to other individual, social, and Israel; the operation of the 1998 International Religious political, intellectual, and economic goods. We hope in Freedom Act; the treatment of religion in the foreign policy future years to make it a permanent institute at the Center. of the Obama administration; and the vexed, important question of proselytism and religious freedom. The For the fourth straight year, we conducted a major conference brought together some of the leading thinkers conference on religion and U.S. foreign policy during each in the United States, across various religious traditions, to academic semester. Held on Georgetown’s campus, these engage a critical question: is there anything within the conferences have routinely attracted between 120 and American experience of religion and politics that offers 150 attendees from Washington’s academic, think-tank, itself as a useful model for emulation by other societies? media, and policy communities. Their consistent popularity Panelists discussed the American Jewish, Muslim, and appears to result from the high quality of panelists, the Christian experiences from a variety of perspectives within brief, focused presentations we encourage them to make, those respective traditions. The Roman Catholic Archbishop and the vigorous discussions that ensue when members of Denver, Charles Chaput, delivered the keynote. of the audience are invited to participate. After each of these events, the Berkley Center produces a report with key Among the questions that were addressed in this conference: excerpts from the discussion. What is the proper role of religious ideas and actors in the political life of the nation? May religious individuals or Our first conference in October explored an emerging policy religious communities make explicitly religious arguments, issue of considerable import in the 21st Century: the nature of or religiously informed moral arguments, for laws and the relationship between international religious freedom and policies? For example, may Christians and Jews legitimately American national security. One panel of national security make Scriptural arguments, or Muslim arguments from the experts and scholars examined whether U.S. national security Qur’an or Hadith, for or against particular foreign policies policy might fruitfully employ strategies to advance religious or economic policies, for or against gay marriage, or for or freedom. Another focused the same question on a particular against embryonic stem cell research? If so, why and what set of nations: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. The American limits, if any, should obtain? If not, why not? The result was a Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, lively and fruitful discussion, in this case a live demonstration Rashad Hussain, delivered a keynote address. The collective of the American system of religious freedom at work. result was a fascinating, contentious, rich, and productive debate over the meaning of security, religious freedom, and We have embarked upon an exhilarating dialogue in our American national interests. first four years. With support from the John Templeton Foundation, we will continue this conversation to positively In March, we held a conference that pulled together the impact the role of religious freedom around the globe. previous four years of events, including explorations of

Thomas F. Farr is a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center and Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 23 The Religious Freedom Project

The Berkley Center has received a $2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to support the interdisciplinary study of religious freedom. The Religious Freedom Project will engage a team of leading international scholars, led by Center Senior Fellow Thomas Farr, to explore different understandings of religious liberty and its importance for de- mocracy, economic and social development, international diplomacy, and the struggle against religious extremism.

Over the course of three years, the project will sponsor a series of publications, symposia, policy consultations, and courses to generate and disseminate knowledge about religious freedom among scholars, policy experts, educators, and the wider public.

“At a moment when religious freedom is under siege around the world, the Religious Freedom Project will mobilize scholars, promote teaching, support policymakers, and inform a wider public about the value of religious liberty.” Project Director, Thomas Farr

Thematic Areas

• Religion as Intrinsic to Human • Religious Freedom and Economic, Experience Social, and Political Development • Historical Origins of Religious • Religious Freedom and the Struggle Freedom against Extremism • Religious Freedom in the U.S. and Europe

Project Leadership

Thomas F. Farr, Director and Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Timothy Samuel Shah, Associate Director and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government

Kyle Vander Meulen, Project Associate

24 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Exploring the Many Dimensions of Religious Freedom

Freedom. It’s the yearning of millions who have braved bullets Timothy Shah and truncheons from Cairo to Benghazi to Hama since the Arab Associate Director Spring began. Yet full political freedom will remain a distant goal if it excludes an element that is too rarely discussed: In fact, President Obama offered a glimpse of why broad religious freedom. religious freedom is so essential to broad political reform in his May 19th speech. The President made an argument for One person who has suggested that religious freedom is the empowerment of women that equally applies to the essential to a positive future in the Middle East is President empowerment of religious individuals and communities: Barack Obama. In his major address on the region on May “History shows that countries are more prosperous and more 19, 2011, President Obama said this: “America will work to see peaceful when women are empowered. And that’s why we that…all faiths are respected, and that bridges are built among will continue to insist that universal rights apply to women as them…And for this season of change to succeed, Coptic well as men…The region will never reach its full potential when Christians must have the right to worship freely in Cairo, just as more than half of its population is prevented from achieving Shia must never have their mosques destroyed in Bahrain.” their full potential.”

Indeed, the full political freedom for which millions continue What President Obama said about female empowerment to struggle in the Middle East requires full religious freedom. is right on. Yet history also shows that countries are more Yet it is essential to clarify that religious freedom is more than politically prosperous, free, and peaceful when religious groups securing freedom of worship for religious minorities and other of all kinds are empowered to serve as independent civic long-suppressed religious groups. actors, as I demonstrate in God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2011) co-authored with my The task of clarifying the nature of religious freedom and linking Religious Freedom Project colleagues Monica Duffy Toft and it to broader social and political reform has been a central focus Daniel Philpott. of the Berkley Center’s new Religious Freedom Project from its launch in January 2011, just as the Arab Spring was beginning. The Middle East will never reach its full potential when its The Project seeks to emphasize that religious freedom is one deeply religious citizens are prevented from achieving their part freedom from religious repression but also one part full potential. Full religious freedom, therefore, must mean freedom of religious expression. full freedom of civic participation for all non-violent religious groups. Freedom to worship, yes, but also freedom to form While it is essential in a context in which Middle Eastern religious independent civil society organizations that can check minorities such as Coptic Christians are under threat to demand otherwise unlimited state power. Without such freedom, the that their basic right to worship be respected, it is also essential Middle East won’t be free—period. Without such freedom, the to stress that religious freedom also includes the full freedom dream of the courageous millions who have made the Arab of all religious groups—majority and minority—to voice their Spring will remain tragically unfulfilled. religious convictions in the public square.

Timothy Samuel Shah is Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Government Department, Georgetown University.

2010 - 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 25 6 | staff & Campus partners

Melody Fox Ahmed Director of Programs & Operations

Melody joined the Berkley Center in June 2006. Previously she worked at the Corporate Executive Board and with the Buxton Initiative, an interfaith dialogue organization in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a M.A. in Global, International, and Comparative History from Georgetown.

Paul Beccio Lead Software Developer

Paul Beccio joined the Berkley Center in May 2007. Prior to Georgetown, Paul developed web-based applications for the Federal Aviation Administration. He has studied at the Lorenzo De’ Medici Art Institute. He also studied History at the University of Maryland, as well as American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona.

Erin Coleman Events and Projects Coordinator

Erin Coleman joined the Berkley Center as the Events and Projects Coordinator in March 2011. She graduated from Georgetown in 2009 with a B.A. in English and Italian and a minor in Government. She is also a graduate student in Georgetown’s Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, focusing on globalization and its impact on cultural identity.

Kyle Vander Meulen Project Associate, Religious Freedom Project

Kyle Vander Meulen joined the Berkley Center in January 2011. Before Berkley, he completed his Masters studies in Divinity at the University of Chicago and worked for three years as an assistant to Michael Novak at the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a B.A. in Religion with a Secondary Field in Public Health from The George Washington University.

Jamie Scott Program Associate

Jamie Scott joined the Berkley Center as the Program Associate in June 2010. He graduated from Georgetown in May 2010 with a B.A. in Government and minors in Anthropology and History. He is enrolled in the Masters in Public Policy program at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

26 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Campus Partners Faculty Advisory Board

The Berkley Center is at the heart of a campus-wide effort Thomas Banchoff, Chair, Government/SFS to build knowledge about the role of religion in world Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Anthropology affairs and to promote interreligious understanding in the Daniel Brumberg, Government service of peace. Key collaborative partners include: Gay Cima, English Patrick Deneen, Government • Anthropology Department Chester Gillis, Theology • Catholic Studies Program Ariel Glucklich, Theology • Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Yvonne Haddad, CMCU/SFS/History • Government Department Paul Heck, Theology Lead Software Developer • Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Lise Morjé Howard, Conflict Resolution/Government • Mortara Center for International Studies Stephen King, Government • Office of Mission and Ministry Carol Lancaster, Dean, SFS • Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian John Langan, S.J., Philosophy/SFS Understanding Marilyn McMorrow, RSCJ, SFS • Program for Jewish Civilization Fathali Moghaddam, Psychology • Sociology Department Peter Phan, Theology • Theology Department Siva Subramanian, Medical Center • Woodstock Theological Center John Voll, CMCU/SFS/History Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow Post-Doctoral Fellow Jane Dammen McAuliffe, President, Bryn Mawr College Yi Liu Research Fellows

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