Religion, Security & Foreign Policy – Parliamentary event

The All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief is holding an event:

Religion, Security & Foreign Policy

Hosted by Baroness Berridge & Jim Shannon MP
Monday 21st March 2016, 18:00-19:30
Committee Room 4, House of Lords

Cole Durham (BYU) and Dr. Peter Petkoff (Brunel and Regent’s Park College, Oxford) will be speaking in Parliament on the themes of Religious Freedom and Security as well as Religion and International Law in Foreign Policy.

Cole Durham is Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies since the Center was officially organised on January 1, 2000. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review and Managing Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. He is President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS), based in Milan, Italy, and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.

Dr. Peter Petkoff is a Law Lecturer at the Brunel Law School. He is also Director of the Religion, Law and International Relations Programme, a collaborative international research network at Regent’s Park College, Oxford, in which capacity he brings together lawyers, theologians, philosophers, and social and political scientists, to develop innovative interdisciplinary strategies for studying law, religion and international relations from legal and theological perspectives.

Sponsored by: APPG on International Freedom of Religion or Belief, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Brunel Law and Religion Research Group, Regent’s Park College, Oxford, Brigham Young University.

For more information contact Gurinder Singh Jhans

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