Resources

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) sets high standards for children’s protection and well-being in the family, school, society and institutions – standards that religious leaders and groups are particularly well-placed to communicate and hold society accountable…

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…

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…

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…

Supporting summary & synthesis table of mapping strategies: Table

KAICIID Mapping Dialogue for Peace: http://www.kaiciid.org/what-we-do/knowledge/mapping-dialogue-peace The Peace Mapping Programme aims to: display the breadth of interreligious dialogue (IRD) activities promoted by international organizations; analyze the many ways its practitioners engage in interreligious and intercultural understanding, and promote peacebuilding, either directly…

WACC facilitates a Development Initiative Programme under which project partners in countries of the global South carry out one-year-long initiatives that place communication (including traditional media and digital technologies) at the centre of strategies to bring about social change.

Tags: Capacity Building, Data Collection by Local Community

Article by Saferworld Bangladesh, January 2016 By involving religious leaders and using their influence in the local community, a Saferworld project in Bangladesh has been able to more effectively address safety and security issues and promote peace, write G.M. Shoeb…

This report provides an overview of the engagement with faith-based actors and faith-related activities by the members of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Engaging Faith-Based Actors for Sustainable Development from 2013-2015 View the most recent annual report from…

Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty The center, with funding from the GHR Foundation, published an evaluation and analysis of NIFAA's early work in 2011, two years after NIFAA's founding. The report demonstrated NIFAA "offers a sustainable and replicable…

The Online Information Platform for the WHS Side Event hosted by JLIF&LC, Soka Gakki International, and others is available at www.jliflc.com/whs. This list presents key evidence on faith, religion, and humanitarian action published within the last five years. This evidence has…

In preparation for faith engagement at the World Humanitarian Summit, convening in Istanbul, May 2016, civil society organizations organized regional working meetings in order to provide local perspectives to the organizers of the WHS faith-focused event. Discussion focused on local perspectives…

The report "Faith & Resilience after Disaster" explores the role of faith in building resilience in the context of the response to Super Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda), which made landfall in the Philippines on 8 November 2013, affecting…

World Vision's Ebola Response Summary in Sierra Leone Covers impact on children, community, education, health, child protection, livelihoods, religious leaders, burials, food assistance, lessons learned.

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…

The LIGHT Wheel provides a framework to understand change in every aspect of a person or community’s wellbeing – both spiritual and physical. The LIGHT Wheel sets out nine domains – or “spokes” – that holistically represent an individual or community’s ability to live well, flourish and be resilient. The Light Wheel contains a number of data collection tools which help us to measure and assess holistic change. The Wheel takes an assessment beyond direct outputs and outcomes of a particular initiative, programme, project or process to look at the intended and unintended impact. The tools include: a household survey with approximately 15 questions per spoke, a guide to direct observation for enumerators, guidance on how to consider secondary data, and at the centre of the tools is a participatory guide for focus group discussions (where communities score themselves for each spoke based on discussion questions).

Tags: Holistic Wellbeing, Organization-wide System

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.

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.…

Episcopal Asset Map   Submitted by Abagail Nelson, Episcopal Relief & Development, with the comments below: Please see the link here to the Episcopal Asset Map - a crowd sourced, church administrated, mapping effort shared by Episcopal Relief & Development…

Lean Research is about making the research process more relevant and meaningful and less burdensome and extractive for the people and communities involved. The following resources were submitted by Evidence Working Group member Victor Kazanjian, URI: This work is done…

Regional Working Meeting Report - Wheaton, Illinois

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…

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/502609 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504897 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website Submitted by religious leader or FBO

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/502610 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS Website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/468287 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504891 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/505032 Tagged as "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/505002 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504992 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504989 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS Website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504285 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website Submitted by religious leader or FBO

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504271 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504104 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504096 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504084 Tagged with “Religion Belief” on the WHS website

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/502323 Tagged with "Religion Belief" on the WHS website

Link: http://nepalitimes.com/article/Nepali-Times-Buzz/healing-together%20,2785

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/504221 Submitted by religious leader or FBO

Link on the WHS website: https://www.worldhumanitariansummit.org/node/503484 Submitted by religious leader or FBO

A Reflection on the Unique Role of FBOs in Humanitarian Crises