Panel Discussion: "Rethinking Religion&Nationalism in the Global Landscape"

is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies, Sociology and an affiliate of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was the founding director of the Global and International Studies Program and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. He is also a William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian religion and politics. He has published more than three hundred articles and thirty books, including When God Stops Fighting: How Religious Violence Ends (University of California Press, 2022), God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare (Oxford, 2021), and Terror in the Mind of God (University of California Press, 4th Edition, 2017).

is the Director of the South and Southeast Asia Action Team at Religious

Freedom Institute, Wilson Professor of Religious Freedom at Baylor University, Senior

Fellow at the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and Senior Fellow at the

Leimena Institute, Jakarta. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on

religion and politics, especially religious freedom, including recently Persecuted

(Thomas Nelson, 2013), Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking

Freedom Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2011), Blind Spot: When Journalists

Don't Get Religion (Oxford University Press, 2009), Religious Freedom in the World

(Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). He is the author of several hundred articles, and his

writings have been translated into over twenty languages. He is in frequent

demand for lectures and media appearances. Marshall holds a B.Sc. (University of

Manchester), M.Sc. (University of Western Ontario), M.Phil. (Institute for Christian

Studies, Toronto), M.A. and Ph.D. (York University, Toronto) with further studies in

human rights at the University of Strasbourg, and theology and jurisprudence at Oxford.

, Ph.D., is the Founder & Principal of Cohesion Strategy. A thought leader in religious pluralism and social cohesion, Allison brings 20 years of experience in strategy, research, and nonprofit and philanthropic leadership. She previously worked at The Aspen Institute Religion & Society Program, where she served as Assistant, Associate, and Interim Director of the program and Director of its Religion and Philanthropy Initiative. She also managed events at the El-Hibri Foundation and The Catholic University of America. During her five-year tenure at Aspen, Allison edited Pluralism in Peril: Challenges to an American Ideal, developed a seven-component framework to understand the system of religious pluralism, published both academic and industry papers on religion and philanthropy, and contributed to a special journal issue on Religious Literacy in Education. She has spoken from the main stage at the International Religious Freedom Summit and the El-Hibri Foundation Peace Awards Ceremony. She has given talks at Upswell, the United Philanthropy Forum, and the American Academy of Religion. Allison has a Ph.D. in church history from The Catholic University of America and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University. Her graduate research focused on how societies manage or fail to manage their internal diversity and how they create and maintain social boundaries.

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