
The Religion and Peacemaking program conducts research, identifies best practices, and develops new peacebuilding tools for religious leaders and organizations. It also helps define and shape the field of religious peacebuilding.
USIP’s Religion and Peacemaking program has produced a series of Special Reports on Islam, including “Applying Islamic Principles in the Twenty-first Century,” “Ijtihad,” “Islam and Democracy,” “Islamic Perspectives on Peace and Violence,” and “The Diversity of Muslims in the United States.” This report is the most recent addition to that series. It is coauthored by David Smock, associate vice president for the Religion and Peacemaking program, and Qamar-ul Huda, senior program officer in that program. The research assistant for this project was Basma Yousef.