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Brownback says summit expansion and "Abrahamic" diplomacy can reduce religious conflict
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Summary
Ambassador Sam Brownback described plans to expand the International Religious Freedom Summit, advance interfaith diplomacy (including Abrahamic initiatives) and pursue ambitious projects such as an "Isaiah 19 Highway" to tie economic corridors to religious reconciliation.
On the Transatlantic podcast, Ambassador Sam Brownback described efforts to expand the International Religious Freedom Summit beyond the human-rights community and to bring security and democracy organizations into the effort. He said the summit has recently met in Nairobi and will meet in Morocco.
"My dream right now is to take religious freedom out of the human rights space and put it and have it in the global security space," Brownback said, arguing that security practitioners pay more attention to issues framed as strategic risks.
Brownback also described aspirational diplomatic initiatives tied to religious reconciliation, including an "Isaiah 19 Highway" economic corridor linking people across the Middle East and a symbolic interfaith peace gesture among Abrahamic faith leaders. "I'd love to see a peace treaty signed between, Jews, Christians, and Muslims," he said, as a moral and symbolic act that would make clear killing someone for their faith is unacceptable.
The guest said he hopes the broader human-rights community will support these moves and that security actors will follow. The podcast did not specify resources, concrete timelines or formal commitments to implement the described infrastructure or treaty proposals.
