Religious Diplomacy

Through this course students will be introduced to the interaction of religion and diplomacy. Students will achieve a basic knowledge of the main categories, strategies and tools mobilized by experts and actors when dealing with the interaction of religion and diplomacy. Students will gain awareness of the interaction of religion with State to State diplomacy, as well as with public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy. They will familiarize themselves with the following frames of reference: the introduction to the interaction of religion & diplomacy; religion in state diplomacy, and in public and cultural diplomacy; religious diplomacy, as an umbrella concept covering all aspects of the interaction of religion and diplomacy; religious diplomacy, violence and peace; religious diplomacy and development; religious diplomacy, separation, establishment and religious engagement; religious diplomacy and freedom of religion or belief.