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Annual Report2011-2012

ANNUAL REPORT2011-2012

2 BERKLEY CENTER FOR RELIGION, PEACE & WORLD AFFAIRS AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

IntroductionWhy is dialogue so difficult?

Too often we take up ideas as weapons. We hurl them at each other across a range of domestic and international issues. To question one’s own ideas is construed as weakness; to be open to those of others is akin to capitulation.

This weaponization of ideas promotes political polarization and public cynicism in American politics. In world affairs, it abets confrontation and violence: Think of the baneful effects of the idea that Islam and the West have nothing to teach each other.

Since its founding in 2006, the Berkley Center has sought to promote dialogue across religious and cultural divides in the service of peace. Our research, teaching, and outreach activities take the reality of difference as a starting point for the exploration of common ground on issues ranging from human rights and religious freedom to human dignity and global development.

This report highlights our work over the past year, including: the Berkley Center Lecture with Jürgen Habermas; a capstone conference to mark five years of collaboration with the Luce Foundation on religion and development; the expansion of the Religious Freedom Project with the support of the John Templeton Foundation; and a partnership with the Ford Foundation to promote dialogue on American values.

Universities have an obligation to promote the open exchange of ideas for the greater good, nationally and internationally. We are proud to be part of that effort here at Georgetown.

Tom Banchoff, Director Professor of Government and Foreign Service

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CONTENTS

06 FACULTY

“The Berkley Center is critical to Georgetown’s efforts to promote global engagement in the Jesuit tradition—through deeper dialogue and greater understanding around challenges of human development, human rights, and peace.

DR. JOhN J. DEGiOiA, PREsiDENT, GEORGETOwN UNivERsiTy

08 TeACHInG & STUDenTS

14 ReSeARCH

20 OUTReACH

26 STAFF & PARTneRS

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HIGHLIGHTS From 2012

World-renowned philosopher Jürgen Habermas has emerged as a pow-erful voice at the intersection of religion, politics, and the secular. In October 2012, he spent a week at Georgetown as a guest of the center, participated in seminars with faculty and students, and gave a Berkley Center Lecture on Myth and Ritual. Previous center lectures have fea-tured Tariq Ramadan and Charles Taylor.

Berkley Center Lecture with Jurgen Habermas

In April, center Director Tom Banchoff moderated a panel discussion on Catholics, evangelicals, and the 2012 election, with e.J. Dionne (George-town University/Washington Post), Michael Gerson (Washington Post), and Margaret Steinfels (Fordham).

Catholics/Evangelicals event

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In the wake of the Arab Spring, the world’s attention is focused on pros-pects for stable democracy in the Middle east. At a March 2012 sym-posium organized by the Religious Freedom Project, Robert George (Princeton University) and Hamza Yusuf discussed Muslim approaches to religious freedom and their significance for contemporary world politics.

Islam AND Religious Freedom

2011-2012 was a very busy year. The center hosted 53 events on topics including religion in global development and religious freedom. Highlights included a major lecture by Jürgen Habermas and a Dialogue on American Values, hosted by ABC’s George Stephanopolous.

US politics have grown progressively more polarized over the past decade. Do shared American values provide a basis for dialogue and compromise in the years ahead? Using the budget crisis as a point of departure, George Stephanopoulos addressed this core question to leading public figures including Philadelphia Mayor Michael nutter, Carly Fiorina, and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. The panel discussion, held in Philadelphia in October 2011, was made possible through the support of the Ford Foundation.

American Values Dialogue in Philadelphia


FACULTY & PROGRAMS The Berkley Center is home to leading scholars and distin-guished practitioners, each appointed in departments across the university. Their research and teaching addresses contem-porary global challenges and prepares students to be leaders in an increasingly culturally and religiously diverse world.

DirectorProfessor, Department of Govern-ment and School of Foreign ServiceProgram: Faith, ethics, and Public Life

Tom BanchoffSenior Research FellowProgram: American Pilgrimage Project

PAUL ELIESenior Fellow and Professor of SociologyProgram: Globalization, Religions, and the Secular

JosE Casanova


Associate DirectorVisiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Adjunct Professor of LawProgram: Law, Religion, and Values

michael Kessler

Eric Patterson, who served as associate director from 2008-2012, left the center to become dean of the Robertson school of Govern-ment at Regent University. Jocelyne Cesari joined the center as a senior research fellow in 2012 and will serve as visiting associate professor in 2013-2014.

FACULTY TRAnSITIOnS

Senior Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor, School of Foreign ServiceProgram: Religious Freedom Project (Director)

Thomas farr

Senior Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor, School of Foreign ServiceProgram: Religion and Global Development

Katherine MarshallSenior Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor, Department of GovernmentProgram: Religious Freedom Project (Assistant Director)

Timothy Shah


Today’s college students will have to navigate a world that is growing both more integrated and di-vided. In our global era, the capacity for dialogue across cultural and religious divides will be a critical asset in all walks of life.

Since its founding, the center has engaged students on multiple levels. Faculty have taught some 30 courses with an enrollment of almost 800. More than 130 undergraduate and graduate students have served as research assistants, working alongside faculty and staff on academic and outreach projects.

In 2011/2012, our teaching and work with students intensified in new ways. A generous gift by George-town alumnus William Doyle (C’72) endowed the Doyle engaging Difference Program, a collabora-tion between the Berkley Center and the Center for new Designs in Learning and Scholarship. The program will support two established center programs—the Junior Year Abroad Program (JYAn) and the Doyle Seminars program—into the future. JYAn provides a forum for Hoyas abroad to share their observations about their home countries with the wider Georgetown community. Doyle Seminars al-low for faculty-student research collaboration on topics relating to engaging difference across politi-cal, cultural, and religious divides.

This past year also saw the introduction of the Religion, ethics, and World Affairs certificate—a collabo-ration with the School of Foreign Service—and the second year of our education and Social Justice Fellowship project.

educating Tomorrow’s Leaders for a Global era

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The Religion, ethics, and World Affairs (ReWA) certificate launched in Fall 2011. The certificate, offered in the School of Foreign Service, allows students to study the faith and values dimension of international affairs in depth. Students pursuing the certificate take classes in three thematic areas: faith and ethics in international re-lations; religion and politics in comparative perspective; and religion in history and culture. They also conduct original research in a capstone seminar, and present their work at a spring colloquium. The first recipients graduated in Spring 2012.

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COURSeSTom Banchoff Religion, ethics & World Affairs

José Casanova Religion & Globalization

Thomas Farr Politics of International Religious Freedom

Religion and American Foreign Policy

Michael KesslerLaw, Religion, and Liberty of Conscience

Law and Religion Seminar:Accommodating the Liberty of Conscience

Katherine MarshallPoverty and Inequality: Development Challenges

Rethinking Global Development: Rights, Faith, and ethics

eric PattersonReligion, Conflict & Peace

Peacebuilding Strategies

Timothy ShahArguing Religious Freedom

Is God Winning?

Rev. Jim WallisFaith, Social Justice, and Public Life

teaching & students


The Doyle engaging Difference Program is a campus-wide collaboration between the Berkley Center, the Center for new Designs in Learning and Scholarship, and Georgetown College, designed to deep-en the university’s own commitment to tolerance and diversity and enhance global awareness of the challenges and opportunities in an era of increasing interconnectedness. The Doyle Program is made possible by a generous gift from alumnus and Board of Directors member, William J. Doyle (C’72). The program’s main components are upper-level Doyle Seminars and the Junior Year Abroad network.

ThE DOyLE ENGAGiNG DiFFERENCE PROGRAM


The Doyle Seminars are intended to deepen student learning about di-versity and difference through enhanced research opportunities, interac-tion with thought leaders, and dialogue with the Georgetown commu-nity and beyond. eligible seminars address questions of national, social, cultural, religious, moral, and other forms of difference. Faculty receive activity funds for their course, implement a rigorous research paper re-quirement, and arrange for one or more guest experts to provide feed-back on student research. A final report documents the research projects completed by each student.

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Law, Religion, and Liberty of Conscience: 2010 - 2011 Undergraduate Fellows Report

Strategies for Peace: Transforming Conflicts in a Diverse World: 2011 - 2012 Undergraduate Fellows Report

teaching & students

“Through the program, we challenge students to examine their preconceptions and encourage them to engage with and learn to appreciate the differ-ences in our human community—on campus, in our nation, and on a global scale.

wiLLiAM J. DOyLE (C’72) PREsiDENT AND ChiEF ExECUTivE OFFiCER,

POTAsh CORPORATiON OF sAskATChEwAN, iNC.

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Study abroad is an opportunity for discovery and self-transformation. Students broaden their experience and enrich their education through engagement with different peoples around the world.

The Berkley Center Junior Year Abroad net-work (JYAn) connects study abroad students in a global conversation on religion, politics, and culture. Students immersed in diverse settings—from Chile to France, from egypt to China—share their experiences and obser-vations through a series of letters that are posted on the Berkley Center website. Part of the Doyle engaging Difference Program, JYAn students engage in a dialogue about diversity and tolerance with each other and with the wider Georgetown community.

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Only through better access to education will the world’s poor be able to seize opportunities in an increasingly global economy. While poli-cy analysts have documented the widespread failure of governments to meet this imperative, we still know relatively little about successful local efforts led by religious communities to advance economic and social development through education.

In early 2010, two Georgetown University centers—the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace,and World Affairs and the Center for SocialJustice Research, Teaching and Service—cre-ated the education and Social Justice Projectto engage students and build knowledgeabout the deep connections between globalchallenges of poverty and education.

The project provides three students with summer research fellowships to travelabroad for in-depth examinations of innovative initiatives, with a focus onthe work of Jesuit secondary and post-secondary institutions. Under facultysupervision, the students gather information through interviews, analyze bestpractices, and share their reports and conclusions with a wider global audience.

Deven Comen traveled to india to study issues of social justice and education in a rapidly developing country. As a guest of st. xavier’s College, a Jesuit university in Mum-bai, Deven conducted a series of interviews to examine the com-munity’s response to issues un-derlying india’s advancement into the global economy: malnutrition, gender bias, corruption in the pub-lic and private spheres, the rural/urban divide, access to credit, reli-gious and cultural divides, and in-clusive growth.

Conor Finnegan conducted re-search in cooperation with the Jesuit institute’s Believing in Cre-ation and Evolution Program in Johannesburg, south Africa. Conor looked at the program’s work at the nexus of religion, education, and so-cial justice. he also examined how changing religious beliefs to fit with modern science alters a person’s sense of self, and how the history of apartheid has affected science and religious education in south Africa.

Codie Kane partnered with the Universidad Centroamericana José simeón Cañas (UCA) in El sal-vador to explore the relationship between social and economic in-equity and differential access to education in the san salvador re-gion. she focused specifically on UCA’s understanding and treat-ment of this issue in the context of its Jesuit tradition, with a particular emphasis on how its work has been influenced by the role of the Jesuit order in the 1980-1992 El salvador Civil war.

ReSeARCH PROJeCTS

EDUCATiON AND sOCiAL JUsTiCE PROJECT

teaching & students

The Education and Social Justice Project ReportJanuary 2012


The research of scholars at the Berkley Center addresses issues that defy disciplinary boundaries. In our globalizing world, questions of religion, democracy, human rights, development, and peace are tightly interconnected. The idea that the public role of religion would gradually fade through processes of modernization and secularization—and that its study could therefore be limited to de-partments of theology and religious studies—has proved wrong.

Berkley Center faculty bring specific disciplinary expertise to complex contemporary questions. At the same time, they collaborate with one another and with colleagues across Georgetown and outside the university in building new knowledge about the critical, yet poorly understood, role of religion our world.

Two institutional collaborations have proved particularly fruitful: a partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation and the edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service to examine the changing role of religion in development, led by Katherine Marshall ; and a three-year grant from the John Templeton Foundation to set up an ambitious Religious Freedom Project, led by Thomas Farr.

RESEARCHSpearheading interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing role of religion and ethics in world affairs

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Timothy Shah co-authored God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (norton, 2011) with Daniel Philpott and Monica Duffy Toft. The book ex-amines the rising role of religion in political concerns ranging from technology, globalization, democratization, and peacebuilding to civil war and terrorism.

In embryo Politics: ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies (Cornell Uni-versity Press, 2011), Tom Banchoff analyzes the polititcal debates over life-sciences technologies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. He argues that political and religious polarization have crowded out thoughtful deliberation about the governance of embryo, stem cell, and cloning research.

eric Patterson’s ethics Beyond War’s end (Georgetown University Press, 2012) brings leading just war theorists into conversation about real-world late- and post-conflict situations, ranging from the US Civil War to Afghanistan, the Mid-dle east, and the Congo.

The Berkley Center hosted the launch of a new volume, Rethinking Religion and World Affairs (Oxford University Press, 2012). edited by Timothy Shah, Alfred Stepan, and Monica Duffy Toft. This work re-centers religion as an in-tegral influence on international affairs, including conflicts and peacemaking, media and politics, and American humanitarianism and foreign policy.

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From left: RFP Associate Director Timothy Shah moderates a debate with legal scholars Michael McConnell and Noah Feldman

Religion as Intrinsic to Human experience Historical Origins of Religious Freedom Religious Freedom in the US and europe Religious Freedom and economic, Social, and Political Development Religious Freedom and the Struggle Against extremism

Thematic Areas

The Religious Freedom Project (RFP) began at the Berkley Center in January 2011 with the gen-erous support of the John Templeton Foundation. The RFP is the nation’s only university-based program devoted exclusively to the analysis of religious freedom, a basic human right restricted in many parts of the world. Our team of interdisciplinary scholars examines different understand-ings of religious liberty as it relates to other fundamental freedoms; its importance for democracy; and its role in social and economic development, international diplomacy, and the struggle against violent religious extremism. Our target audiences are the academy, the media, policymakers, and the general public, both here and abroad.

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ASSOCIATeSCHOLARS

José CasanovaGeorgetown University Jean Bethke elshtainUniversity of Chicago

William Inboden University of Texas at Austin

David novak University of Toronto

Daniel PhilpottUniversity of notre Dame

Mona SiddiquiUniversity of edinburgh

Monica Duffy Toft Harvard University

Roger Trigg University of Oxford

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What’s So Special About Religious Freedom?november 17, 2011

Religious freedom has been called America’s “first freedom.” But does it warrant such a special status? What, if anything, distinguishes religious free-dom from other protected rights? The Religious Freedom Project hosted eminent legal scholars noah Feldman (Harvard Law) and Michael McCon-nell (Stanford Law) to debate these critical questions.

Religious Freedom: Why now? Defending an embattled Human RightMarch 1, 2012

Religious freedom is under sustained pressure around the world today, though it receives little attention from governments, the academy, or the me-dia. Religious Freedom: Why now?, published by the Witherspoon Institute’s Task Force on International Religious Liberty and principally authored by RFP Associate Director Timothy Shah, speaks directly to this problem.

Religious Freedom and Religious extremism: Lessons from the Arab SpringMarch 16, 2012

The success of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi parties in the recent egyptian elections highlights the complex relationship between religious freedom, religious extremism, and democracy in the region. The RFP wel-comed former Bush (43) and Obama administration officials to discuss how the fragile democracies of the Arab Spring should approach religious free-dom and what US foreign policy objectives should be advanced.

Religious Freedom and Healthcare ReformMarch 22, 2012

The Health and Human Services contraception mandate has revived the de-bate about the Obama administration’s healthcare reform and its implications for religious freedom. The RFP convened several leading experts to explore the controversy from different legal, theological, and policy perspectives.

Religious Freedom and equality: emerging Conflicts in north America and europeApril 11, 2012

In both europe and north America, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty. At an international conference at Oxford University, the RFP convened legal scholars, politicians, and religious leaders from both sides of the Atlantic to ad-dress these tensions.

RFP EvENT hiGhLiGhTs

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Thomas Farr, RFP Director

Religion as Intrinsic to Human experience Historical Origins of Religious Freedom Religious Freedom in the US and europe Religious Freedom and economic, Social, and Political Development Religious Freedom and the Struggle Against extremism


RELiGiON AND GLOBAL DEvELOPMENT PROGRAMThe Berkley Center’s Religion and Global Development Program tracks the engagement of religious communities around global policy challenges and brings together stakeholders to examine best practices. and advance collaboration. With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation and the edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the program advanced its work in 2011/2012 in four main areas:- Global Mapping of Faith-Inspired Organizations and Development- Religion and Development Issues Survey- Women, Religion, and Peace- Practitioners and Faith-Inspired Development Interview Series

The Religion and Development Program, led by Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall, collabo-rates closely with the World Faiths Development Dialogue, a non-governmental organization housed at the center, and with other partners including the US Institute of Peace, and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

The World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) works to build bridges between the worlds of faith and secular development. established at the initiative of James D. Wolfen-sohn, then president of the World Bank, and Lord Carey of Clifton, then archbishop of Canterbury, WFDD responds to the opportunities and concerns of many faith leaders who have seen untapped potential for partnerships. Based in Washington, DC, WFDD supports dialogue, fosters communities of practice, and promotes understanding on religion and development, with formal relationships with the World Bank, Georgetown University, and other secular and faith-inspired institutions.

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As the deadline to realize the Millennium Development Goals approaches, this interview series explores how the efforts of faith-inspired actors can best be harnessed to craft effective policy looking toward 2015 and beyond.

ian Linden, director of policy, Tony Blair Faith Foundation

Azza karam, senior advisor on cul-ture, United Nations Population Fund

Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, general secretary, world ywCA

Lord George Carey of Clifton, former archbishop of Canterbury

Rosalina Tuyuc velásquez, human rights activist, 2012 Niwano Peace Prize winner

More than 300 interviews are available online at: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/interviews

InTeRVIeW SeRIeS On FAITH-InSPIReD

DeVeLOPMenT WORK

Faith-Inspired Development: Lessons Learned and next Steps november 7, 2011

The Berkley Center and WFDD convened a one-day event to take stock of the Religion and Global Development Program’s results over the last five years, explore the program’s significance in the light of the United nations Mil-lennium Development Goals, and look toward next steps.

Buddhist economics in the Age of Globalization April 12, 2012

Sulak Sivaraksa, a well-known and globally recognized engaged Buddhist leader, reflected on his more than half a century of work, and explained his call for an “economics of happiness” as an alternative to existing models of development.

Joint Religious Leadership Coordination for the G8 and G20 Summits May 17, 2012

Ahead of the G8/G20 summits, representatives from twenty different faiths and religiously affiliated organizations convened at the Berkley Center to ar-ticulate shared moral concerns and policy recommendations around issues of global health, food security, and economics.

EvENT hiGhLiGhTs FROM 2011-2012

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In a world where lack of knowledge about religion and culture can have devastating consequences, the Berkley Center connects leading scholars to policy communities and the wider society to address some of the most pressing issues of our time. This outreach embodies the ethos of engagement in the Jesuit tradition—the passionate search for truth, dialogue with different cultures and traditions, and a commitment to the greater global good. Center outreach seeks to advance intercultural and interreligious understand-ing through strategic partnerships with foundations, media, government, and international organizations that bring contrasting points of view into dialogue around critical public policy questions, including human rights, economic and social development, and science and technology. In the brief span of six years, the center has hosted over 350 conferences and symposia for scholars and policymakers, and produced over 50 reports. Center scholars also create and manage a set of online knowledge resources for educators, students, policymakers, and citizens, including overviews of the major world religions, country reports, lesson plans, case studies, and film guides.

In 2011/2012, our outreach work took on new dimensions. Georgetown became the permanent home for the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury’s Muslim-Christian dialogue project, Building Bridges. We partnered with the Washington Post on a website that tracks religious rhetoric in the 2012 election season. The cen-ter released a national poll of college-age Millennials on faith, values, and the American future and con-vened a Millennial Values Symposium in Washington, DC. Additionally, we were a partner in Georgetown’s participation in President Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, an invitation to institutions of higher education to commit to a year of interfaith and community service programming on campus. Center faculty members also convened training seminars for US military chaplains on contem-porary issues about religion and security.

OUTREACHengaging the world to foster respect, inspire dialogue, and transform policy

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At a time of growing religious and cultural diversity in the United States, the American Pilgrimage Project is an effort to document the role that faith plays in the lives of ordinary Americans. The Berkley Center is partnering with the acclaimed documentary or-ganization StoryCorps on this unique initiative. Author and Senior Research Fellow Paul elie directs the project, which includes audio interviews with people from around the country.

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From 2009-2011 the Berkley Center and the Luce/SFS Program partnered with members of the US mili-tary chaplaincy to provide seminars on contemporary issues at the nexus of religion and security. The primary purpose of armed forces chaplains is to provide for the First Amendment rights of military mem-bers when they cannot participate in a local worship community due to their military service. Chaplains are thus experienced pastors, counselors, and worship leaders but not necessarily experts on world religions and the intersection of faith with issues of security, foreign policy, and economic development. However, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan highlighted the need for more sophisticated knowledge of the role of religion and culture when engaging those societies, and chaplains have been called upon by their commanders to advise on issues of religion more generally. In late 2009 the Pentagon officially directed the chaplaincy to develop some expertise in providing commanders with background on religious cur-rents on the ground as well as be prepared to engage local religious leaders in pursuit of peace.

OUTREACH TO MILITARY CHAPLAINS

Three decades after the country’s opening and economic liberalization, China is undergoing a reli-gious revival. While the Communist Party retains its monopoly of power, the regime has recognized a more prominent role for religion in Chinese culture and society and supported the expansion of religious studies at universities. With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation and the Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs, the center sponsored two workshops on religion and international affairs at universities in Shanghai and Beijing in December 2011. Center Director Tom Ban-choff and Senior Fellow José Casanova engaged faculty and students in wide-ranging conversations about the role of religion in China and the United States and its implications for international relations.

ENGAGING CHINA ON RELIGIon AND WORLD AFFAIRS

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Ahead of the 2012 election, the Berkley Center convened student leaders from around the country for a discussion about key political, religious, and societal issues facing their generation. Through a partnership with the Public Religion Research Institute, the center also released a ground-breaking national survey of young Americans on faith, values, and the election. Results from the survey were mentioned in more than 50 news stories and blogs. In order to encourage online discussion and set the stage for a second symposium in the fall, student leaders blogged about faith, education, values, economic inequality, and related news stories throughout the summer.

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About 6-in-10 (61%) college-age Millennials say they are registered to vote, but fewer than half (46%) say they are absolutely certain they will vote in the 2012 election.

Like Americans overall, college-age Millennials (age 18-24) are most likely to cite jobs and unemployment as a critical issue facing the country.

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“Religion has always played an important role in American poli-tics. Through this on-line resource, developed in collaboration with the Washington Post, scholars, students, and citizens can compare perspectives across candidates and themes and over time.

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with religion emerging as an important issue in the 2012 presidential campaign, the Berkley Center’s Faith in the 2012 Election online resource tracks the statements of candi-dates on topics such as reli-gious identity, islam in America, and key social issues.


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The Berkley Center remains an active partner in the Building Bridges Seminar—the foremost dialogue for Christian and Muslim scholars in the world. The center hosts the seminar’s website (http://buildingbridges.georgetown.edu), which includes key documents and videos drawn from the past ten annual meetings. After ten years under the esteemed leadership of Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, Georgetown University will assume responsibility of the seminar in 2012.

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Answering President Obama’s challenge to build understanding be-tween different communities and contribute to the common good, thousands of Georgetown students participated in service activities during the year, including tutoring programs, a neighborhood cleanup effort, canned food drive, and alternative spring break trips. The univer-sity also reached approximately 1000 students and 1500 total partici-pants (faculty, staff, community members) through interfaith engage-ment initiatives, including an interfaith 9/11 prayer vigil, faith and service roundtable discussions, a blog series, and student discussion groups.

PREsiDENT’s iNTERFAiTh AND COMMUNiTy sERviCE CAMPUs ChALLENGE

MAJOR eVenTSSeptember 1kickoff event

September 89/11 interfaith prayer vigil

October 25 Days of service

november hunger and homelessness week

January 21MLk Day of service

February Georgetown-syracuse can drive

March 23Georgetown interfaith retreat

April 25 year-end symposium with Eboo Patel

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Actively serving our community as a campus, while actively reflecting on the faith and ethical commitments that call us to this work.

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Arun Gandhi

PREsiDENT’s iNTERFAiTh AND COMMUNiTy sERviCE CAMPUs ChALLENGE yEAR-END REPORT JUNE 2012


Staff & Partners

Marjorie Mandelstam BalzerSociology/Anthropology

Daniel BrumbergGovernment

Gay Cima English

Patrick Deneen Government

Chester Gillis Theology

Ariel GlucklichTheology

yvonne haddadCMCU/SFS/History

Paul heck Theology

Lise Morje howard Government

stephen kingGovernment

Carol Lancaster SFS/Government

John LanganS.J Philosophy/SFS

Marilyn McMorrowSFS

Fathali Moghaddam Psychology

Peter PhanTheology

siva subramanian Medical Center

John voll CMCU/SFS/History

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Melody Fox Ahmed Assistant Director for

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Paul Beccio Software Developer

Erin Coleman Events and Projects Coordinator

Jamie Scott Program Associate

Erin Taylor Director of Communications

Kyle Vander Meulen RFP Program Associate

Amy Vander Vliet Web Editor

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