Prodromou to Speak at Upcoming Prov Committee on Foreign Relations Meeting

Prodromou to Speak at Upcoming Prov Committee on Foreign Relations Meeting

The Providence Committee on Foreign Relations has announced that Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou will serve as the guest speaker at next month’s meeting.

Prodromou’s talk is titled God, Soft Power, and Geopolitics: Religion as a Tool for Conflict Prevention/Generation.”

The meeting will take place on Thursday, December 5 at the Hope Club in Providence. Drinks begin at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served around 6:45 p.m.

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About Prodromou

Prodromou is the director of the Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy, and is visiting associate professor of conflict resolution, at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

She is also a non-resident senior fellow and co-chair of the Working Group on Christians and Religious Pluralism, at the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute, and is also non-resident fellow at The Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism, based in Abu Dhabi.

Prodromou is the former vice-chair and commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and was a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Religion & Foreign Policy Working Group.

Her research focuses on geopolitics and religion, with particular focus on the intersection of religion, democracy, and security in the Middle East and Southeastern Europe.

Her current research project focus on Orthodox Christianity and geopolitics, as well as on religion and migration in Greece.