Robin Wright – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu The official news site for Fordham University. Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://now.fordham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/favicon.png Robin Wright – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu 32 32 232360065 Beyond Extremism: Reclaiming Religion’s Peacebuilding Capacity in an Unstable World https://now.fordham.edu/living-the-mission/beyond-extremism-reclaiming-religions-peacebuilding-capacity-in-an-unstable-world/ Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:44:27 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=30330 Tuesday, January 27, 2015 | 6pm
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In the post-9/11 world, where boundaries between faith and global politics are fluid, religion is often criticized for stoking extremism and underwriting violence. But can the enmeshed relationship between faith and politics also be the starting point for a new era in peacebuilding and conflict resolution?

How can religious leaders and foreign policy makers work together to lay the foundations for peace in hotspots around the globe? Join us for a forum on the intersection where secular politics and the world’s faith traditions meet.

R. Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

Shaun Casey, Special Advisor for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, U.S. State Department

Robin Wright, journalist, foreign policy analyst and author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World

Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Islam and Christianity

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