EPPC is pleased to co-sponsor the third of three symposia commemorating the tenth anniversary of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Act. Panelists will address U.S. IRF policy and democracy promotion, civil society, religion-based terrorism, law (domestic and international) and public diplomacy. The symposium, hosted by Georgetown University and co-organized by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and the Council on Faith & International Affairs at the Institute for Global Engagement, will lead to a published brief on U.S. IRF policy for the new administration.

For more information, please view the webpage: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/1364

Please RSVP to berkleycenter@georgetown.edu.

Agenda 

8:15 - 8:45: Light Breakfast

8:45 - 9:00: Opening Remarks
Thomas Banchoff (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs)
Chris Seiple (Institute for Global Engagement)

9:00 - 10:00: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Religious Extremism
Rick Santorum (Ethics and Public Policy Center)
William Schulz (Center for American Progress)
Moderator: Chris Seiple (Institute for Global Engagement)

10:00 - 11:00: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Public Diplomacy
William Galston (The Brookings Institution)
Jennifer Marshall (The Heritage Foundation)
Moderator: Dennis Hoover (Institute for Global Engagement)

11:00 - 11:15: Break

11:15 - 12:15: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Democracy
Mark Plattner (National Endowment for Democracy)
Daniel Philpott (University of Notre Dame)
Moderator: Thomas Farr (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs)

12:15pm - 12:45pm Light Lunch (wraps and drinks)

12:45 - 2:00: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and Civil Society
Andrew Natsios (Georgetown University)
Elizabeth Prodromou (Boston University)
Carroll Bogert (Human Rights Watch)
Moderator: Mark Silk (Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life)

2:00 - 2:15: Break

2:15pm - 3:45pm: U.S. International Religious Freedom Policy and the Law
T. Jeremy Gunn (American Civil Liberties Union)
William L. Saunders (Federalist Society)
David Saperstein (Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism)
Hadley Arkes (Amherst College)
Moderator: Cole Durham (International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Please RSVP to berkleycenter@georgetown.edu.