Democracy and Religious Tolerance in Tunisia

Thursday, February 26, 2015
Anis Mili/Courtesy Reuters
Speaker
Alfred C. Stepan

Director, Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government, Columbia University

Moderators
Amna Guellali

Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division,  Human Rights Watch

Religion and Foreign Policy Series

Alfred C. Stepan, founding director of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, discusses democracy and religious tolerance in Tunisia, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

Learn more about CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

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