Faith Engagement with the SDG Policy Framework: from ‘lessons learnt’ to ‘what comes next?’
We invite both academics and practitioners to submit abstracts for a special issue of the open access Brill journal Religion & Development (www.religion-and-development.org) on Faith Engagement with the SDGs Policy Framework: from ‘lessons learnt’ to ‘what comes next?’ We encourage joint authorship, involving collaboration between academics and practitioners, senior and junior colleagues as well as between contributors from the Global South and Global North.
Discussions about what comes after the SDGs, post-2030, are already underway and will intensify over the next five years. In this publication we are interested in looking back to the development of Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the contributions that faith actors made in (1) setting the agenda and (2) implementing it in their work over the past decade. We also want to look forward to what comes next: and ask (3) how are faith actors beginning to engage in the post 2030 discussions and what kind of policy response do they want to see? While we recognise that there is a place for studies that reflect upon the ways in which different religious texts and theologies support the SDGs, this is not the focus of this publication. We are interested in learning more about how faith actors have engaged with Agenda 2030 as an international policy framework. This includes how the global goals were ‘translated’ to the local level and what issues arose in making them meaningful and operational here, as well as what needs to change in what comes next.
The special issue will be co-edited by Jörg Haustein (Cambridge University) and Emma Tomalin (University of Leeds).
Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words and should reach us by 15/8/24. Please email to e.tomalin@leeds.ac.uk (also use this email if you have any questions). We will inform people if their abstract has been accepted by 31/8/24.
A hybrid workshop will be held in Leeds sometime in the Autumn 2024 to share outlines of papers. Some funded places for UK participants will be available. More details will be made available about this later.