With his easy charm and boyish grin, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke to scholars, students, religious leaders, and MPs at the Windsor Hotel on Friday.   

Blair’s visit was prompted by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s funding of teaching and research on religion and globalization at McGill’s Faculty of Religious Studies. Earlier that day, he led a class of the students of RELG 319: Religion and Globalization, the new course funded by the foundation.   

Blair considers the issues his foundation promotes to be some of the 21st century’s most vital.

“Does religious faith become a force for progress? Or does religious faith become a source of conflict and sectarianism?” Blair asked. “I think that’s the dominant question of the 21st century.”

Finding such answers becomes more and more important as globalization accelerates, he said.

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