This report is based on discussions and interviews with leading CSOs and private sector companies operating within the CVE, prevention, and resilience spaces. Leaders from across the sector agree with policymakers on the urgent need to combat the rise in…
Published: 2016
Author:Abbas Barzegar, Shawn Powersm and Nagham El Karhili
This article explores the role of Religious Leader Engagement (RLE), a capability under development in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and operational focus of the CAF Chaplain Branch. It stands as a recent contribution to the Comprehensive Approach. Full length…
Published: 2013
Author:S.K. Moore
This article will examine hybridity as it relates to three different spheres of influence within the operational environment. Firstly, experts increasingly focus on today's hybrid threats often stemming from radically inspired terrorism. Secondly, whole of government efforts to stabilize and…
Published: 2015
Author:S.K. Moore
This file contains the message of Shahabeddin Mohammadi Araghi, Under Secretary General, Iranian Red Crescent Society, speaking on behalf of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The message included the Fundamental Principles, which outline the ethical basis…
Published: 2016
Author:Mohammad S. Mohammadi Araghi
"Faith-based Interventions in Peace, Conflict and Violence: A Scoping Study" was launched at the World Humanitarian Summit on May 23, 2016 at the JLIF&LC & Soka Gakkai International Side Event "Evidence on Religious Groups' Contributions to Humanitarian Response". For more…
Published: 2016
Author:Chris Shannahan, Laura Payne, Coventry University
Report from the Second Donor-United Nations-Faith Based Organizations' (DUF II) Policy Roundtable This technical report focuses on the role of religious actors, and religious considerations in the SDG agenda, particularly as they pertain to gender equality, peaceful coexistence and security…
Published: 2016
Author:Azza Karam
In 2016 the Secretary General presented a report titled One Humanity: Shared Responsibility. The report identifies five core responsibilities that will be the focus of discussion and proposed action. The JLIF&LC has prepared evidence briefs linked to each of these responsibilities. Each…
Published: 2016
Author:JLIF&LC
This article underlines the need to move beyond the exhausted notion of all religions preaching peace to studying the specific manner in which violence is legitimised in each religion. This is the first step liberal secularists need to take if…
Published: 2016
Author:Vivek Sharma
The United Refugee and Host Churches (URHC) is an association of churches in Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) and the surrounding community of Turkana founded and operated by refugees and local Turkana people. Originally founded in 1996, this group addressed ongoing…
Published: 2015
Author:David Boan
With the unexpected and disconcerting reemergence of religion as a first order cleavage in global politics, scholars and policy makers have been scrambling to bring some analytical order to the phenomenon. In this article, the author seeks to show why…
Published: 2016
Author:Vivek Swaroop Sharma
On 10 April 2014, the UN Security Council unanimously decided that a peacekeeping mission would be sent to the Central African Republic in September 2014. This is a remarkable step, one which until recently was considered implausible. What is even more extraordinary…
Published: 2014
Author:Geneva Liaison Office of the World Evangelical Alliance
Reflections and recommendations on "Working on Religion, Peace and Conflict in Theravada Buddhist Countries" arising from an exchange between peacebuilding practitioners held 19-21 March 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. The reflection contains four pages. They include highlights and summarized recommendations.
Published: 2015
Author:Owen Frazer and Martine Miller
This paper is written for policy makers and conflict transformation practitioners working on conflicts with religious dimensions. It aims to support policy and practice by providing a conceptual framework to strengthen analysis of the role that religion plays in conflict.…
Published: 2015
Author:Owen Frazer and Richard Friedli
This research brief attempts to contribute on the current challenge in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Based on a series of interviews with foreign fighters and their families, the researchers find that traditional approaches to stabilization and development are unlikely…
Published: 2015
Author:Mercy Corps
This paper discusses Islamic traditions of peace and conflict resolution, and argues that nonviolent and the peaceful resolution of conflicts has been an integral aspect of Islamic tradition since the time of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). This paper also discusses…
Published: 2013
Author:Islamic Relief Worldwide
This article that frames the problem of secularism, democracy and communalism in India with specific reference to the rise of Hindu nationalism. The writer of the article, Sharma argues "As the American relationship with India deepens, U.S. policy makers and observers…
Published: 2015
Author:Vivek Swaroop Sharma
Was religion a friend or foe in the post-conflict statebuilding endeavours of Iraq and Afghanistan? An under-explored area in academia and policy circles alike, religious institutions are important non-state actors that wield considerable influence and can draw upon extensive resources.…
Published: 2015
Author:Denis Dragovic
The British Academy's latest international policy report explores how the role of religion in conflict and peacebuilding has all too often been depicted in binary terms, which have obscured the complexity of the subject. The report argues that religion is…
Published: 2015
Author:Sara Silvestri and James Mayall
Responding to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s World Humanitarian Summit initiative, the Sovereign Order of Malta set up a Symposium to consider the question: 'Do faith-based institutions have an added value in humanitarian action particularly in conflict situations?’ Two high level…
Published: 2015
Author:The Order of Malta and World Humanitarian Summit
The aim of this Toolkit is to help lower the discomfort of USAID staff in making the analytical and programmatic connections between conflict, religion and peacebuilding. The Key Issues section provides additional arguments for why development practitioners should—and can—address religion…
Published: 2009
Author:USAID
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