Religion and foreign affairs

This book explores inter religious dialogue as a means of contributing to peace building. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and protecting the core aspects of religious experience to establish a genuine culture of encounter. Mario Torres Jarrín is the Director of the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Spain. He has previously held positions as a Researcher and Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and at the Faculty of Humanities at the Stockholm University. Additionally, he served as the Director of the European Institute of International Studies in Sweden. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Europe, Asia and the Americas, as well as at diplomatic academies.