The World Affairs Council of Austin invites you to join us for the final Kozmetsky Center program with featured speaker Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom and Chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project for the Religion-Policy/Security. This session will focus on issues of human rights, religious freedom and geopolitics. Nury Turkel will join returning project participant panel contributors, Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, Professor at Boston College and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Dr. John Erickson, priest of the Orthodox Church of America and former Dean & Professor Emeritus of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and Father/Dr. Lou Brusatti and Dr. Kelley Coblentz Bautch of St. Edward’s to continue the dialogue and exploration on the potential for religious-policy/security collaboration in supporting human rights, religious freedom and human security.
The Religion-Policy/Security Nexus project was initiated in 2016 in partnership and with grant support from NATO Public Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Atlantic Council and other domestic and international university partners. Conferences and forum sessions have brought together policy officials, academics and religious clerics from different nations and cultures to share research contributions and professional insights with our students supporting research and policy development.
The session will be held in-person on campus in the Carter Auditorium on Wednesday, April 19 from 12:00-2:00 PM.
