Category: Analysis

At a conference in Beirut earlier this month participants gave evidence of the power of heritage to make life worth living for groups and communities…

Since researching the experiences of gender discrimination against women in poverty who belong to religious minorities, many fellow feminists have turned their back on me.…

On the 25 February Nigeria will experience its seventh consecutive general election – the longest streak of democracy the country has witnessed in over 60…

Climate change reductionism – assuming the causes and the redress for those suffering the worst impacts of extreme weather lies with climate change alone –…

It’s almost been a year since the Taliban swiftly regained power in Afghanistan, which led to a new exodus of refugees, many of whom sought…

Last week, Egyptian Coptic youth from Minya welcomed a delegation from the UK Embassy, led by HM Ambassador Gareth Bayley, to a reconstituted “heritage village”…

In my first post I compared key elements of theories of action and change for the two main schools of thought on the links between…

Last year the Coalition of Religious Equality and Inclusion in Development  (CREID) contracted me to conduct research in support of mainstreaming inequality on the grounds of religious…

There was probably no better place than Istanbul to hold CREID’s first face-to-face event, which took place early February, after two years of online gatherings.…

With much of knowledge sharing on heritage gathering dominated by Western scholars and practitioners, a recent IDS-led workshop in Beirut, supported by the British Council’s…

What’s the best way to include religious diversity in humanitarian settings? Olivia Wilkinson and Jennifer Philippa Eggert, from the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and…

Researchers Maryam Kanwer and Jaffer Mirza speak to Shia Hazara Afghan refugees who are living in fear and hiding in Pakistan. ‘There were so many…