Nineteenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposium | 10/9/12 | Provo/Utah

    The Brigham Young University has invited Open Religious Policy Forum Chairman Sven Speer to present the idea of Open Religious Policy on October 9th 2012 in Provo, Utah. Speer is participant of the Nineteenth Annual International Law and Religion Symposiumof the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at the J. Reuben Clark Law School. In his speech he will talk about the incoherency of the religious diversity in modern society. He will develop the imperative to open the state in religious and ideological matters. The panel complements Tøre Lindholm, Associate Professor at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights of the University of Oslo, Norway.

    The speakers at the symposium from October 7th to 9th are experts on state, religion and law from all continents. Among them are Suzan Johnson Cook, United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Jorge Luis Salas Arenas, constitutional law judge in Peru and Derek H. Davis, former director of the J.M. Dawson Institute on Church-State Studies, Baylor University/Texas.

    You can see the program here: http://www.iclrs.org/content/blurb/files/Symposium%20Program%2020120925.pdf

    Dr. Sven Speer
    Dr. Sven Speer ist Vorsitzender des Forums Offene Religionspolitik (FOR) seit dessen Gründung 2011. Als Mitarbeiter und im Rahmen von Vorträgen und Gutachten berät er Regierungsorganisationen, Abgeordnete, Religionsgemeinschaften und Verbände zum Verhältnis von Staat und Religion – u.a. in Berlin, Jerusalem, Beirut, Kairo, Washington D.C., Houston und Salt Lake City. Er ist darüber hinaus Co-Founder von inteero, einer Plattform für Online-Einrichtungsberatung. Speer hat Politikwissenschaft und Geschichte studiert und am Exzellenzcluster ‚Religion und Politik‘, am German Marshall Fund of the United States und am Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien zur politischen Regulierung von Religion geforscht.