Read an Oct. 17, 2012 Huffington Post article about the importance of giving children the tools and information on multiple religions in order to give them the “baggage” for later analysis and understanding.

Read a May 15, 2011 Huffington Post article that says that most people renounce their childhood religion before the age of 24, which means that teaching religion to the younger generations is as important as ever.

Read a Sept. 26, 2011 article about the growing distance between the new generations and religion, despite the fact that over 72 percent of Millennials consider themselves “more spiritual than religious,” according to a LifeWay Christian Resources survey.

Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma is a Baltimore treatment center for survivors of torture. Contact through the website.

Read a Jan. 31, 2013 Religious News Service article about the Vatican culture ministry’s fear that the younger generations are not fully understood by the Catholic Church.

Harry Dammer is an associate professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. He is expertise is in the role of religion in prisons.

Diane Orentlicher is a professor at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Her scholarly work has focused on issues of accountability for human rights crimes, transitions to democracy, corporate responsibility in a transnational context, and the relationship between ethnic identity and political participation.

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Hadar Harris is executive director of the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is an international human rights attorney and has specialized in issues of civil and political rights, gender equality and fighting impunity for torturers.