Religious Diplomacy
Annual conference focuses on response of religious leadership to the COVID challenge
The Graduate Program in Conflict Management, in cooperation with the Project for the Study of Religion, Culture and Peace, Mosaica - The Religious Peace Initiative, and the Berkeley Center at Georgetown University recently held its second annual conference on religious diplomacy.
This year's conference focused on the response of religious leadership to effectively act upon the COVID challenge, with implications for leveraging such efforts for future religious peace building.
The conferences are motivated by the increasingly accepted idea that religion can be a source for peacebuilding and international understanding rather than solely a force for conflict escalation. Give the common challenge which has faced religious leadership in encouraging public response to the COVID pandemic, this year's theme focused on the response of religious leadership to effectively act upon the COVID challenge, with implications for leveraging such efforts for future religious peace building.
This event followed the first annual conference on Religious Diplomacy held in June 2021 on Religious Diplomacy and the UAE-Israel Abraham Accords.