Conventional wisdom has it that religious liberty is a universally valid principle, enshrined in national constitutions and international charters and…
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New UNICEF guide on partnering with religious groups
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) recently released a new guide, Partnering with Religious Communities for Children, intended to support…
Believing in religious freedom
Like a good movie, the story of international religious freedom offers something for everyone. It pits cowardly oppressors against heroic…
Responses to Qur’an burning in Afghanistan
Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur'an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February…
Politics of Faith—The Role of Religion in Divided Societies
America Abroad, the award-winning documentary radio program, has released a new documentary, "The Politics of Faith---The Role of Religion in…
Paradigms for Peacebuilding
Next Thursday, November 10, the the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the SSRC, and a range of other institutions…
Shared sovereignty
On October 21, at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, an interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe,…
A suspension of (dis)belief
Most academic discussions in political science and international relations presuppose a fixed definition of the secular and the religious and…
Democracy under exception
I agree with Kahn (and with Schmitt) about the fact that political theory should leave room for decision and exception.…
Religious freedom in the EU
This July 11-12, a small interdisciplinary group scholars convened in Venice for the first in a series of workshops organized…