Noah Feldman | Compassion in World Affairs | 2017 Festival of Faiths

'WE ARE ALREADY ONE' Religion and Compassion in World Affairs with Karen Armstrong, Amb. Mathew Barzun and Noah Feldman moderated by William Vendley.

Matthew Barzun, recent U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and a known internet pioneer and grassroots fundraiser, shares the stage with Karen Armstrong, renowned religions author and Noah Feldman, Harvard law professor and Middle East expert. They will explore a vision for world affairs as if compassion were the primary driving motivator for global exchange.

The session will be moderated by William Vendley, Secretary General of Religions for Peace International, the world’s largest and most representative multi-religious coalition advancing common action for peace. Short talks followed by a moderated discussion and audience question and response.

Dr. Noah Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches constitutional and international law. As an academic and  public intellectual, Feldman is concerned with issues at the intersection of religion and politics. Feldman served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law or interim constitution. He is a contributing writer for the Bloomberg View.

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