Religious Intolerance and its Impact on Democracy

Speakers

Asma Jilani Jahangir

Professor Amartya Sen

Discussant

Chair

Professor Chetan Bhatt

Asma Jilani Jahangir will deliver the 2017 Amartya Sen Lecture.

Asma Jilani Jahangir is a Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Amartya Sen is Thomas W Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and an LSE Honorary Fellow.

Chetan Bhatt (@ChetanBhatt1962) is director of the Human Rights Centre at LSE.

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