Faith can overcome religious nationalism. Here’s how
Understanding the best – and the worst – of our own faith tradition is the first step to defeating religious intolerance.
Graduate, Stanford, Naval Postgraduate School and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; PhD. Former Marine Infantry Officer. President, Institute for Global Engagement. Founder, The Review of Faith & Int'l Affairs. Member: Council on Foreign Relations; Int'l Institute for Strategic Studies. Member, Federal Advisory Committee to the US Secretary of State's Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society; Senior Adviser to the Dialogue's working group on Religion and Foreign Policy. Chair, Global Agenda Council on the Role of Faith, World Economic Forum. Speaks regularly on the relationship between religion and realpolitik. Co-Editor, Routledge Handbook on Religion & Security (2012).
Understanding the best – and the worst – of our own faith tradition is the first step to defeating religious intolerance.
Today, more than 60 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes. This threatens the world’s population and prosperity in both the near- and long-term.
Values cannot be justified by the intellectual process alone. Faith must be involved.