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Yale's Faith And Globalization Resources
Video | Policy for making value-based decisions View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair responds to a student's question about how practically to inject values into the global system.
Video | Balancing Faith and Public Engagement View
Miroslav Volf, Tony Blair
After introductory remarks by Miroslav Volf, Tony Blair discusses the challenges faced by those in public office as they seek to follow the dictates of their values while addressing the needs, concerns, and interests of their constituency.
Video | Sources of values guiding political decisions View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair responds to a student's question about whether key values informing a just engagement with globalization must be derived from religion or from humanistic sources.
Video | Tensions between Faith and politics View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair responds to a student's question about whether one can be fully committed to one's faith and still be a fully committed, engaged and responsible politician.
Video | Infusing values into the global system View
Tony Blair
Tony Blair responds to a student's question as to whether we can simply add values to existing structures or whether structural change is necessary.
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Miroslav Volf  | September 6, 2008
What are the challenges and opportunities of expressing one's faith while holding political office? Consider how leaders from around the world address these challenges and utilize these opportunities.

External Resources
Diplomacy and Religion in the 21st Century
Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett  | January 3, 2008
The greatest threat in the post-Cold War world, says Douglas Johnston, is the prospective marriage of religious extremism with weapons of mass destruction. Yet the U.S. spends most of its time, resources, and weapons fighting the symptoms of this threat, not the cause. The diplomacy of the future, he shows through this audio clip, must engage religion as part of the strategic solution to global conflicts.
The Mighty and the Almighty: American Foreign Policy and God
Yale Divinity School Video: Madeline Albright  | March 30, 2004
Madeline Albright, the first woman Secretary of State and highest ranking woman in the history of the US government, draws upon her personal experiences to talk about how the borderless nature of religious faith often makes it easier for leaders to talk to one another, easier for nations to agree on common values, and easier for people from vastly different backgrounds to reach a consensus about moral standards.

 

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