Institute on Religion and Public Policy

Institute on Religion and Public Policy

"Nominated for the 2007 Nobel Prize in Peace, the Institute on Religion and Public Policy is an international, inter-religious non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring freedom of religion as the foundation for security, stability, and democracy.

"The Institute works globally with government policymakers, religious leaders, business executives, academics, international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations and others in order to develop, protect, and promote fundamental rights - especially the right of religious freedom - and contributes to the intellectual and moral foundation of the fundamental right of religious freedom. The Institute encourages and assists in the effective and cooperative advancement of religious freedom and democracy throughout the world."

Advisory Board
Accessed June 2008:
 * Russell Barber - Former Religion and Ethics Editor
 * Lord David Alton - Life Peer
 * Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr. - Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel and tenured Professor of Religion, College Archivist, and Curator
 * Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati - Spiritual Teacher
 * Sam Brownback - Member, United States Senate
 * Yeshaya E. Cohen - Chief Rabbi of Kazakhstan
 * John Chowning - Vice President for Church and External Relations, Executive Assistant to the President, Director, Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy
 * Richard Cizik - Vice President for Government Affairs
 * Anna G. Eshoo - Member, United States House of Representatives
 * Dean Jones - Actor and President
 * Ephraim Isaac - Director, Institute of Semitic Studies
 * Louis V Iasiello - President
 * Jesse Jackson, Jr. - Member, United States House of Representatives
 * David Little - T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict, Harvard Divinity School
 * Richard D. Land - President
 * J. Peter Pham - Director, The William R. Nelson Institute for Public Affairs
 * Russell Shaw - Nationally Syndicated Columnist
 * Harold S. White - Senior Jewish Chaplin
 * Sayyid Muhammad Syeed - Secretary General

Staff
Accessed June 2008:


 * Joseph K. Grieboski, Founder and President
 * Douglas B. Shaw, Vice President and Senior Fellow, International Security Affairs
 * Kevin Paquette, Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant to the President
 * Kyle M. Ballard, Director, International Consortium on Religion, Culture, and Dialogue
 * Sarah Bishop, Director of Administration
 * Jackie Shafir, Coordinator, Interparliamentary Conference on Human Rights and Religious Freedom
 * Nicholas Gvosdev, Senior Fellow
 * Sheikh Ahmed Subhy Mansour, Senior Fellow, Islamic Thought

Contact

 * Institute on Religion and Public Policy
 * 1620 I Street, NW
 * Suite LL10
 * Washington, DC 20006
 * Web: http://www.religionandpolicy.org

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