IRF Summit 2024 University Partnership Program

January 29-31, 2024

INTRODUCTION

Institutions participating in the University Partnership Program value engaged learning and high-impact opportunities for their students. Through this program, institutions award scholarships to their student leaders to attend a 3-day world-class experience focused on religious freedom and human rights. Co-Sponsored by the International Religious Freedom Summit and RFI’s National Center for Religious Freedom Education, the program offers focused, high-impact training sessions and guided simulations to undergraduate and graduate students interested in exploring religious freedom as a basic human right and prerequisite for human flourishing. At the conclusion of the one-day seminar, students will join the 2024 International Religious Freedom Summit as full participants with the opportunity to learn from and network with government officials and civil society leaders from around the world.

SCHEDULE

MONDAY,  JANUARY 29th

10:00 – 11:00    Registration at Washington Hilton

Washington Hilton
1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009
Please proceed to Gunston West—Terrace level

11:00 – 11:15      Welcome and Opening Remarks

• • • • • VIP Speaker

11:30 – 12:30     Session #1 

Topic: Exploring, Embracing, and Expressing: Why Religious Freedom is Vital to Preserving Human Dignity

This session explores the evidence that suggests that the exercise of religion is a uniquely human trait that must be defended if concepts like human dignity and justice are to have any meaning. Additional consideration will be given to ways this right is under threat in today’s global society and how to develop informed, meaningful responses.

12:30 – 1:30     Lunch

• • • • • VIP Speaker

1:30 – 2:15       Session #2

Topic: With Liberty and Justice for all: Why Religious Freedom is Vital to Human Flourishing

This session considers the fundamental relationship between religious freedom and the common good. We will examine the practical benefits of that relationship and discuss why religious freedom functions as the linchpin for a host of other civil liberties that are necessary for stable, democratic societies and flourishing communities.

2:15 – 2:30         Break 

2:30 – 3:15         Session #3

• • • • • VIP Speaker 

Topic: Defending an Embattled Right: Understanding the Global Apparatus for supporting Human Rights

This session introduces the network of government and civil society mechanisms used to advance religious freedom and other human rights and explains the complexities of mitigating and preventing human rights abuses.

3:30 – 5:00       Session #4

Topic: Defending an Embattled Right: Practical and Legal Solutions for Contemporary Threats

In this session, students will work in groups under the guidance of professors and practitioners to develop real-world, practical solutions to global challenges, past and present.  

6:00                 Participants meet in lobby

 6:30 – 9:00    Dinner and Conversation

• • • • • VIP Speakers

TUESDAY JANUARY 3oth – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31st

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PARTICIPATION OPTIONS

◊ INSTITUTIONAL PACKAGES (NON-DC AREA INSTITUTIONS)

•  $5000 – 5 Person Package
  Designed for 4 Students* and 1 Faculty -or- 5 Students from a Travel University
  Includes:
  – 5 Premium Registrations for Training Seminar and IRF Summit
  – Domestic Travel**
  – 2 nights in Summit Hotel
  – University logo on website and in program
• $2500 – 2 Person Package
  Designed for 1 Student and 1 Faculty -or- 2 Students from a Travel University
  Includes:
  – 2 Premium Registrations for Training Seminar and IRF Summit
  – Domestic Travel**
  – 2 nights in Summit Hotel
  – University logo on website and in program

* Additional students can be added to the premium package for $1000 per student
**Domestic travel to be arranged in consultation with Summit Travel Planner

◊ INSTITUTIONAL PACKAGES (DC-AREA INSTITUTIONS)

•  $1500 – 3 Person Package
  Designed for 2 Students* and 1 Faculty -or- 3 Students from a Local University
  Includes:
  – 3 Premium Registrations for Training Seminar and IRF Summit
  – branding on website and program
• $1000 – 2 Student Only Package
  Designed for 2 Students from a Local University
  Includes:
  – 2x Premium Reg Training Seminar and IRF Summit

*Each additional student from DC-area institutions may be added  at the Partnership cost of $500. All meals at Summit hotel provided.

◊ INDIVIDUAL PACKAGES

Individual students currently attending a non-partner institution may register at the Partnership cost of $500. All meals provided at Summit hotel. Travel and lodging not included. For more information, click HERE.

CONFIRM YOUR PARTICIPATION NOW

Interested in becoming a University Partner? Confirm HERE and an IRF Summit representative will contact you.