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      • 2020-2021 Speaker Series: Religion and Peacebuilding
    • Exploring Religion and Violent Extremism Across Comparative National Contexts: Motivation, Distortion, and Exploitation?
      • Exploring Religion and Violent Extremism Across Comparative National Contexts: Motivation, Distortion, and Exploitation?
    • Recent Developments in the Protection of Cultural Heritage
      • Recent Developments in the Protection of Cultural Heritage
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      • Security and Diplomacy Seminar 2021
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      • Cultural Heritage in Crisis: A Conversation Series
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      • 2019-2020 Speaker Series
        • Dmitri Adamsky: Religion, Politics and Strategy in Russia
        • Dr. Cyril Hovorun, Orthodox Church and European Dictatorships in the 20th Century
        • Dr. Payam Mohseni, Transnational Shi’ism and the New Middle East
        • Mr. Michael Kugelman, India Today: Kashmir, CAA/NRC & Beyond
        • Ambassador James Warlick, Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in Eurasia
        • Ms. Ino-Despina Afentouli: NATO and the Challenges to Multilateralism: Are We Experiencing a Paradigm Shift?
        • Professor Schmalz, New Religions, Pluralism, and the Nation-State: The Cases of Jehovah’s Witnesses and The Church of Scientology
        • Mr. Joseph Gindi: Careers in Human Rights
        • Dr. Tanyeri-Erdemir, Restoring Armenian Heritage in Turkey: Displaced Stakeholders of Sacred Heritage Sites
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        • Good Friday After Brexit
        • Human Rights and Religious Minorities in China
        • Faith, War, and Schism: Religion in Russia-Ukraine Relations
      • 2017-2018 Spring Speaker Series
        • Panel: Myanmar in Crisis
        • U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Protecting Religious Minorities in Stabilization Operations
        • The Balkans: Regional Trauma, Structural Context, and Great Power Rivalries
        • U.S.-Russia Relations: Sliding towards Permanent Antagonism?
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      • Sean Callahan Keynote Address, 2017 Conference
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Fletcher Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy (RLD)

2015 Conference

Opening Remarks

  • Professor Elizabeth Prodromou, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Security & Conflict Panelists
Moderator: Professor Elizabeth Prodromou, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

  • James Patton, Executive Vice President, the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy
  • Chaplain (Col.) Barbara Sherer, United States Army
  • Dr. Shadi Hamid, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, author of Temptations of Power

Rights & the State Panelists
Moderator: the Reverend Greg McGonigle, Tufts Interfaith Chaplaincy

  • Aisha Rahman, Executive Director, Karamah
  • Dr. Nancy Ammerman, Department of Sociology, Boston University
  • Former Ambassador to Denmark and former Congressman (D-NH) Richard Swett

Politics & Identity Panelists
Moderator: Nadim Shehadi, Director, the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

  • Kitty Kurth, President, Kurth Lampe Worldwide
  • Mark I. Rosen, Associate Professor, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program, Brandeis University
  • Reverend Kapya Kaoma, The Parish of Christ Church

Keynote Speaker

  • Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, Past Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

Closing Remarks

  •  Nadim Shehadi, Director, the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

 

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