2007-2008

Confronting Religion in the U.S. War of Ideas
Christopher MacPherson

The twelfth and final session of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy and International Relations 2007-2008 Lunch Seminar Series was held on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 12:00 in 012 Bendheim Hall.  The session, “Confronting Religion in the U.S. War of Ideas,” was led by PORDIR fellow Christopher MacPherson.

MacPherson is a second year graduate student at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he studies a range of issues from domestic policy to post-conflict development and counterinsurgency.  Before coming to the Woodrow Wilson School, he held a variety of positions within the Department of Defense and served on the National Security Council at the White House.  During the summer of 2007 he worked in the Office of Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict under the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, where he researched private security companies and helped develop the Department’s counterinsurgency and irregular warfare policy.  This semester Chris is working on a graduate policy task force on Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan with Bob Perito from the United States Institute for Peace (USIP).

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