Religious Freedom and Populism

Bernd Hirschberger works as a human rights advisor for the German Commission for Justice and Peace. Before starting a career as practitioner, he graduated with a PhD degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, examining external communication during asymmetric conflict in social media.
Katja Voges is head of the Human Rights and Religious Freedom Team at the Pontifical Mission Society missio Aachen. From 2013 to 2015 she taught French, religious education and physical education at a secondary school, followed by study and research stays on intercultural and interreligious dialogue in Rabat and Paris. She wrote her theological dissertation on the topic of religious freedom in Christian-Muslim dialogue.