Introduction: Religion and Comprehensive Security

Abstract

The concept of “comprehensive security,” developed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, helps to break down any dichotomization between security and freedom of religion or belief (FoRB). Comprehensive security involves the integration, rather than balancing, of three inter-related dimensions of security: the political-military, the economic-environmental, and the human. The articles in this featured symposium in The Review of Faith & International Affairs address all three of these dimensions of comprehensive security.