JLI’s Research Publications

The JLI Research Team conducts and publishes research, collaborating with organisations and research consultants around the world to investigate the roles of faith actors in humanitarian, development, and peace work. These publications range from research reports to journal articles and blog posts.

This list highlights some of JLI’s publications:

• Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response. 2020. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

• International Development and Local Faith Actors: Ideological and Cultural Encounters. 2020. Co-edited with Kathryn Kraft. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

• “‘We Must be Focused and We Must Organise’: Gender, Conflict and Human Rights Activism in Balochistan.” 2024. Jennifer P. Eggert, Maryam Kanwer, and Sadia Baloch. Gender and Development, Volume 31, Issue 1.
• “NGO-isation, local faith actors and ‘legitimate’ humanitarian action in South Sudan.” 2023. Emma Tomalin & Olivia Wilkinson. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, Volume 5, Issue 2.
• “Secular-Religious Dynamics and their Effect on Humanitarian Norms Compliance.” 2023. Olivia Wilkinson & Emma Tomalin. Journal of Human Rights Practice, online, in print pending.
• “Faith framing climate: a review of faith actors’ definitions and usage of climate change.” 2023. Jodie Salter & Olivia Wilkinson. Climate and Development, Volume 16, Issue 2.
• “Humanitarian policymaking as networked governance: social network analysis of the Global Compact on Refugees.” 2022. Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jay Balagna, Cyd Stacy Nam, Maya Casagrande, and Olivia Wilkinson. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, Volume 7, Issue 22.
• “Topics of significance for international development from religions and COVID-19 research.” 2022. Susanna Trotta, Olivia Wilkinson, and Katherine Marshall. Development in Practice, Volume 32, Issue 8.
• “Faith in Localization? The experiences of local faith actors engaging with the international humanitarian system in South Sudan.” 2022. Olivia Wilkinson, Kuyang Logo, Emma Tomalin, Wani Laki Anthony, Florine De Wolf, and Asha Kurien. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, Volume 7, Issue 4.
• “Local Faith Actors and the Global Compact on Refugees.” 2020. Heather Wurtz, and Olivia Wilkinson. Migration and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 3, Issue 1.
• “‘It’s Being, Not Doing’: Hospitality and Hostility between Local Faith Actors and International Humanitarian Organizations in Refugee Response.” 2018. Olivia Wilkinson. Migration and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 1, Issue 1.

• “Putting the “Strategic” into Strategic Religious Engagement.” 2021. Olivia Wilkinson. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Volume 19, Issue sup1.

• Inaugural Editorial. A New Journal for a New Space: Introducing Religion & Development. 2021. Philipp Öhlmann, Olufunke Adeboye, Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Barbara Bompani, Nadine Bowers-Du Toit, Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Marie-Luise Frost, Wilhelm Gräb, Juliane Stork, Ignatius Swart, Tanya van Wyk. Religion and Development, Volume 1, Issue 1.

• Faith-sensitive MHPSS for humanitarian practitioners. 2021. Leonie Harsch, Corrie van der Ven and Olivia Wilkinson. Forced Migration Review, Issue 66.

• Opinion: Religious groups should be engaged for COVID-19 vaccine delivery, 9 March 2021. Olivia Wilkinson, and Katherine Marshall. Devex Global Views Op-Ed.

• “Secular-religious dynamics and inequalities in humanitarian action,” 2024. Olivia Wilkinson and Jennifer P. Eggert. In: Tobias Denskus, Bandana Purkayastha, and Silke Roth (eds.). Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• “MEAL, Faith and Covid-19 in the Development and Humanitarian Sector: Evidence from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.” Forthcoming, 2023. Jennifer P. Eggert. In: Anis B. Brik (ed). Oxford Handbook for Program Evaluations in the Global South. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• “Faith, Local Actors, and the Localization of International Humanitarian Response,” Olivia Wilkinson. 2023. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration, Oxford University Press.

• “Local Faith Communities and Responses to Displacement,” Susanna Trotta and Olivia Wilkinson. 2020. Handbook of Displacement, Palgrave.

• “’As local as possible, as international as necessary’: Investigating the place of religious and faith-based actors in the localization of the international humanitarian system.” 2020. Olivia Wilkinson. Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society.

Most of our research reports can be found on their associated project pages – please see our Research and Knowledge Partnerships page for a full list of our projects. The list below represents additional reports that are otherwise not represented in other parts of the website.

• Two Years and Counting: COVID-19 Through a Religious Lens, Katherine Marshall and Olivia Wilkinson. March 2022. Working Paper. Washington DC: Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities; World Faiths Development Dialogue; Berkley Center on Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

• Religious Actors, Healthcare, and COVID-19 Response. Azza Karam, Katherine Marshall and Olivia Wilkinson. May 2021. Washington DC: Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy, 2021 Strategic Note on Religion and Diplomacy.

• Compendium of Case Studies on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to Achieve US Development Goals, 16 May 2018. USAID.