The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

As Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams occupies a unique position in the religious world, with the potential to bridge religious and secular. As leader of Britain's established religion, he engages constantly with political leaders...

A friend's Facebook link took me to a CNN article that I thought would infuriate me. The headline was "McDonnell won't disavow Robertson's Islam remarks." What CNN failed to articulate was, to my surprise, that Virginia Governor-elect McDonnell sounded more Madisonian than Robertsonian...

Join Jocelyne Cesari of Harvard University on November 30 as she presents Islamopedia, a collection of rulings and religious opinions that address important topics in contemporary Islam such as gender, non-Muslims, violence, and secularism.

Join us as Charles Villa-Vicencio discusses his recent book, 'Walk with Us and Listen: Peace and Reconciliation in Africa.' Dr. Villa-Vicencio will address the ICC and African mechanisms for justice and peace-building, human rights, and the success of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

We're seeing many calls to conscience these days. Nibbling breakfast, I clicked on a video where Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, calls on people everywhere to sign an appeal to the World Food Summit that begins November 16 in Rome...

Compassion is a core value within and across the world's religious traditions. To mark the launch of the "Charter for Compassion" spearheaded by Karen Armstrong and TED on November 12, 2009, the Berkley Center has assembled a searchable database of diverse perspectives on the issue.

Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion of how the Islamic tradition - including the Qu'ran, the life and sayings of the Prophet, and diverse legal schools - relates to the idea of a liberal democratic state.

To improve understandings of religion in the day-to-day lives of international migrants, the SSRC Project on the Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities investigated the roles of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism for immigrants settled in Malaysia, South Africa, and Great Britain...

Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Na’im both stand at the forefront of the challenging and constructive exchange taking place today between European and Islamic traditions of political, legal, and religious thought. ...

In a recent edition of Georgetown's student newspaper, the Hoya, a graduate student in my department voiced her shock and consternation that the university health plan does not cover birth control prescriptions...

Aicha Ech Channa, a gutsy Moroccan woman, has worked for five decades with young unmarried mothers, who stand at the very bottom of the social heap in her country...

The Center is privileged to have one of the world's leading Muslim scholars of democracy and human rights, Abdullahi A. An-Nai'm, in residence as a senior fellow semester. An-Na'im's recent book, Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a, is a powerful argument...

The 2008-09 Berkley Center Annual Report outlines the the Center's major activities during the 2008–09 academic year, including events, new blogs, issue surveys, undergraduate achievements and much more.