High-Level Collaboration between the Public Sector and Religious and Faith-Based Organizations: Fad or Trend?

Duff, Jean; Battcock, Mike; Karam, Azza; Taylor, Adam Russell

doi:10.1080/15570274.2016.1215819

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“…To clarify, this is not to say that religious institutions were not involved in what is now called development work -or that there were not certain groups involved in high-level collaboration and engagement with policymakers. For example, the World Council of Churches and the Catholic Church (on behalf of the Catholic development agencies) have been engaged in high-level policy engagement for decades (see Dicklitch & Rice 2004;Duff et al 2016). However, such engagement was limited compared with the scope of religious entities now represented at the international development table.…”

Section: A Very Brief History Of 'Religion and Development'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the responses to this concern within the religion and development advocacy effort has been to suggest that 'religious literacy' is lacking within development institutions, and some programmes have been put into effect to attend to this (see Duff et al 2016). While it seems likely that improved literacy would be useful, it is necessary to question how successful such efforts are in shifting something as embedded as a powerful secular or modernist framing within the development sector.…”

Section: Dead-ends For Religion and Development Advocacymentioning

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Hoist by our own petard: Backing slowly out of religion and development advocacy

Olivier

2016

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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There has been a massive advocacy movement over the last 15 years that has sought to advance the case of religion into view of decision-makers in the international development sector. This advocacy effort has been dispersed and not centrally organised, and is made up of the efforts of multiple development actors, religious institutions, researchers and others. This article shows how this advocacy approach has been highly successful in increasing acceptance of the fact that religion is relevant to development, and religious communities and institutions make contributions to the development effort – and this acceptance can now be seen at the highest levels. However, the article highlights several challenges that have come with this advocacy approach. It therefore supports urgent reflection on the direction of this advocacy going forward and suggests that major and uncomfortable adaptations might now be required.

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Section: Dead-ends For Religion and Development Advocacymentioning

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Hoist by our own petard: Backing slowly out of religion and development advocacy

Olivier

2016

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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“…Organisations such as Islamic Relief, Christian Aid and Tearfund have recalibrated their activities in conflict-affected areas, supplementing conflict-sensitive development work with activities more explicitly framed as peacebuilding. This responds to growing donor interest, both in partnering with faith-based organisations (Duff et al 2016) and in peacebuilding. As engagement has increased, debates around working with faith-based actors have matured.…”

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What Can Faith-Based Forms of Violent Conflict Prevention Teach Us About Liberal Peace?

Payne

2020

Religions

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Faith-based actors are often recognised as contributors to both conflict and peace. However, their work to prevent violent conflict, rather than bring an end to or recover from it, is largely unexplored. This is despite the growth of conflict prevention as a global social norm and field of practice. Based on collaborative research with faith groups and organisations in Nigeria, the Solomon Islands and Zanzibar (Tanzania), this paper examines faith-based forms of violent conflict prevention. It argues that faith-based approaches exist on a spectrum, from instinctive and ad hoc initiatives run by individuals and local places of worship to large-scale, systematised interventions led by global faith-based development organisations. Yet, while faith-based approaches to violent conflict prevention vary in form and function, they are consistent and distinctive in their emphasis on building resilient relationships at the local level, modelling forms of prevention embedded within local culture and that recognise the emotional and spiritual dimensions of transformative change. Faith-based approaches offer insights valuable to the wider conflict prevention field, which is increasingly critiqued for its liberal underpinnings and emphasis on technical and technological solutionism. Lessons emerge for others implementing prevention programmes, who could adapt elements of the unhurried, values-led, relationally sensitive approach demonstrated by some faith-based actors, albeit within their own structural limitations. Policymakers should support such adaptations and expand their view of prevention to explicitly include faith-based forms of activity, as to do otherwise risks missing opportunities and reproducing existing failures.

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“…Many secular international organisations have special positions for relations with faith-based organisations (FBOs) and have made it a matter of priority to cooperate with them. Several government agencies together with international organisations have recently created the International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD; see Duff et al 2016). In a recent editorial of The Economist, titled "Aid to fragile states", it is recommended that donors and governments should channel money to NGOs and churches if they want to reach people in remote areas (The Economist, 18 March 2017).…”

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Guest introduction: faith and health in development contexts

Benn¹

2017

Development in Practice

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High-Level Collaboration between the Public Sector and Religious and Faith-Based Organizations: Fad or Trend?

Cited by 7 publications

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Hoist by our own petard: Backing slowly out of religion and development advocacy

Hoist by our own petard: Backing slowly out of religion and development advocacy

What Can Faith-Based Forms of Violent Conflict Prevention Teach Us About Liberal Peace?

Guest introduction: faith and health in development contexts

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