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“Kairos” (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune time, as opposed to “chronos,” meaning ordinary time. Here is a fourth century BCE marble representation of Kairos by Lysippos from the Museo Archeological in Turin.
Jun 10, 2024 · Katherine Marshall is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. She is the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She served as a core group member of the Council of 100, an initiative of the World Economic Forum to advance understanding between the Islamic World and the West. She was a Trustee of Princeton University (2003-9).
- A Polycrisis
- The Four C’s
- The Loss of Illusion
- A “Network of Networks”
- The G20’s Power
Most of us carry vivid memories of March, 2020 when the COVID-19 emergency intruded forcibly into our lives. We had little sense then of the massive disruptions in store for us and for the world. With related and unrelated problems beside the global pandemic: conflicts, debt, rising prices, humanitarian crises, and looming climate change, many spea...
During the Abu Dhabi Forum, IF20 networks, like the leaders of the G20 itself, focused on the full panoply of the intersecting facets of the polycrisis, but four “Cs” that dominate both the 2022 and 2023 agendas were central concerns: COVID-19, climate, conflicts, and children. TheCOVID emergencyis still with us.Religious communitieshave large (if ...
It would be disingenuous to blame the full contemporary crisis on COVID-19, but the pandemic has stripped away many illusions, for example that epidemic disease can be contained behind national borders. It made inequalities starkly visible, and brought home complex linkages among sectors and problems, for example between refugee challenges and the ...
A vital aspect of the IF20 is its focus on a religiously linked “network of networks.” We see tremendous strengths in an expanding number of networks and partnerships, and many played central roles in the Forum. Examples include theNetwork of Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, leaders from global interreligious networks-Religions for PeaceandUn...
The IF20 is focused on the G20 process and thus needs to focus on their agenda. The G20 was created to deal with economic crises, and has the power to make a large difference, in an immediate future, to make the world a better place, or to fall short. The G20 agenda has expanded, but its core functions relate to economic affairs, whether debt relie...
Mar 2, 2021 · Katherine Marshall has worked for five decades in international development, focusing on issues facing the world’s poorest countries. After nearly 30 years at the World Bank working on a wide range of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia and the Middle East she led the Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006.
Sep 5, 2023 · State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with Dr. Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs....
May 22, 2014 · When she came to Georgetown in 2006, Marshall brought WFDD with her, and it is now housed at the Berkley Center. In recent years, WFDD has documented religion’s involvement in the development landscape.
