First Plenary Session: Addressing Global Persecution
Panelists discuss why religious persecution is a persistent problem and the role the media has sometimes played in spreading propaganda and facilitating persecution.
Panelists:
Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University and Executive Director of Worlds Faiths Development Dialogue
David Briggs, Senior Advisor and Founding Executive Director, International Association of Religious Journalists
Heikki Huttunen, Very Rev. Protopresbyter of the Orthodox Church of Finland
Ewelina Ochab, Human Rights Advocate and Author of Never Again: Legal Responses to a Broken Promise in the Middle East
Lord David Alton, House of Lords of the United Kingdom
Felipe Queipo, Information Officer, Civil, Society and Advocacy Section, United Nations
Moderator:
Brett G. Scharffs, Director of the International Center for Law and Religious Studies