professor toft is the coauthor with tim shaw and danielphilpot of the boom "god's century." she is also with professor's shaw and philpot, a member of our scholars team. >> this morning we have been tasked with investigating the space of religious extremism. and the degree to the which the exclusion or inclusion of religious actors and political parties in the political process provokes violence. so i'm joined by three panelists and we will move from the more general, and she is an author of -- price of freedom denied, religious conflict in the 21st century and a head of a doctoral committee. he has written suicide bombers in iraq, and the third, kwh i think will be the focus of many of his comments today is why muslims rebell. johana will talk to us about politics and the degree of the exclusion or inclusion can be attempted. we will talk about governments and the way they restrict religious actors within states or allow them to act openly and freely within different societies and the connection of that to violence. is he clear in most of his work, that correlation and not

tim shaw has written a terrific book which gives the case for religious freedom across all religions and the strategic reasons which we have been talking about. why aimportant to the united states and any country, which is interested in stability and harmony and peace. so i think it's a blockbuster of a book. it's a small book. not a henry kissinger thousand pages, it's probably 80 pages. so it's accessible to anybody beside in the subject and i invite anybody who is interested in coming to the conference to either go to the witherspoon institute's web site or to the web site of my other half, which is the berkeley center at georgetown university. you can find that by google is, and you can find this march 1st event here on the campus of georgetown university, and we invite all of your viewers to come and enjoy with us. we're going to have a keynote address by robert george, who is a professor of political science and political theory at princeton university. one of the preeminent public intellectuals in the united states on many subjects but especially on the subject of religious li