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How does spiritual renewal shape international peacebuilding? In this video from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies' 2026 Strategic Peacebuilding Academy, Fr. Emmanuel Katongole draws on Laudato Si’ and the work of Thích Nhất Hạnh, Martin Luther King Jr., Maggy Barankitse and Desmond Tutu to explore why healing and sustainable peace demand more than just policy changes—they require a "profound interior conversion."

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The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion convened an interdisciplinary dialogue on faith, climate justice, structural violence, and sustainable development on May 22nd 2026. Conducted in collaboration with Lead Integrity as part of the Youth Roster on Faith and Development Initiative, the event brought together young scholars from Nigeria, Ethiopia and the United States. The discussion provided a platform for examining how religion, spirituality, and moral imagination influence responses to pressing global challenges.

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The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion is pleased to award its 2026 Book Prize to Dr. Erin K. Wilson, Professor of Politics and Religion at the University of Groningen. In Religion and World Politics: Connecting Theory with Practice, Wilson contends that the definitions and descriptions of religion which are operative in policy circles and in media are inadequate and misleading, because they fail to incorporate groundbreaking insights from the critical study of religion. Religion “is not an object ‘out there’ that is clearly identifiable, definable and measurable,” she writes, “but rather a fluid, dynamic and ever-changing category made up of rituals, practices, discourses, narratives, institutions, organisations, actors, beliefs and norms that are all context-dependent and variable…”

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The Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion is pleased to host a symposium on Religion and Global Politics across Disciplines and Publics at Notre Dame Rome. This gathering, which marks the capstone of the inaugural Global Fellows program, will showcase the fellows’ scholarship following a year of faculty and peer critique and monograph development.

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