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How is climate change affecting Muslim Communities?

2019-06-19T08:42:36+00:00

June 19, 2019 How is climate change affecting Muslim Communities? Climate change is an issue that is endemic within the Muslim world. Drought-affected areas from Morocco to Iran are not often talked about amongst such communities where it seems attitudes are primarily apathetic toward the cause. With temperatures rising and water evaporating at rapid rates, it is imperative that humanitarian and development organisations act now and act fast. With extreme weather changes and agricultural dilemmas, the current economic climate will mean that such harsh realities cause land conflict and further migration from the countryside to cities. There is thus a strong [...]

How is climate change affecting Muslim Communities?2019-06-19T08:42:36+00:00

Three ways that religion matters in responses to refugees

2019-06-19T08:41:05+00:00

June 19, 2019 Three ways that religion matters in responses to refugees How and why does religion matter in response to forced migration? On Friday 10th May 2019 the Refugee Hosts’ team co-convened a workshop with colleagues from Yale, as part of our British Council-funded Bridging Voices project, to examine the role of religion in forced displacement. The Bridging Voices project and our recent workshop brings our Refugee Hosts research in Lebanon and Jordan into conversation with research conducted by our Yale colleagues in Cameroon, Greece, Malaysia and Mexico. This blog post, written by Dr Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Head of Research at the [...]

Three ways that religion matters in responses to refugees2019-06-19T08:41:05+00:00

Faith, gender, forced migration & trauma

2019-05-10T17:07:34+00:00

May 10, 2019 Faith, gender, forced migration & trauma The role of faith in international development and humanitarian aid is often overlooked, despite faith and religion being an important factor in the lives of many people in underdeveloped and crisis-afflicted areas. In order to shed light on the role of faith in responses to trauma experienced by Muslim women, HAD’s Research and Development (R&D) Department is currently running a project in cooperation with Islamic Relief’s (IR) International Programme Division. As part of the project, two HAD Postgraduate Fellows, Sandra Iman Pertek and Kathleen Rutledge are conducting field research in Tunisia, Turkey [...]

Faith, gender, forced migration & trauma2019-05-10T17:07:34+00:00

Keeping Faith in 2030; Sustainable Development Goals

2023-05-10T08:40:50+00:00

May 10, 2019 Keeping Faith in 2030; Sustainable Development Goals ‘Keeping Faith in 2030’: R&D concludes major international research project on religion and the SDGs in India, Ethiopia and the UK Earlier this year marked the conclusion of a major R&D-co-led research project on religions and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ‘Keeping Faith in 2030’. Understanding religious dynamics and the role of faith communities and actors is crucial for sustainable development and although it had previously been predicted that religion would become outdated and eventually obsolete, faith communities, actors and assets continue to occupy a critical space within development. The [...]

Keeping Faith in 2030; Sustainable Development Goals2023-05-10T08:40:50+00:00
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