Citizen of the World

This essay comments on W. Cole Durham, Jr.’s work as a global religious freedom and human rights advocate. Since 2014, Durham has led the G20 Interfaith Forum—an initiative with an ambitious goal to engage the broadest global agendas through the lens of religious communities across the world, drawing on their most pertinent and persuasive wisdom and experience. Religious freedom has been rather far removed from the core and even broader G20 agenda. However, due to his broad vision, commitment to networking, intellectual rigor, and inherent tolerance, Durham has helped to bring religious voices and actors to contribute to the discussion of the most profound challenges of the current world in addition to the incorporation of religious freedom and engagement into the global agenda

Global challenges · Global South · Human rights · Religious freedom · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics