Discussions of how religion and faith intersect with politics, culture, and society in Africa, including the roles of faith-based NGOs in humanitarian work.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dear Readers, in the below, Tony Roshan Samara describes the underside of post-conflict “development” when it is pushed forward with little attention to “justice.” The issues he addresses […]
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“Uganda, the Challenge of Forgiveness”
This documentary video, produced by Daniel Philpott and Jason Cohen, and funded by the Fetzer Institute, chronicles the difficulties and challenges facing Ugandan religious leaders […]
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(Editor’s Note: Go here for the updated version of this post)
By Adam Branch, Makerere Institute of Social Research
March 8, 2012
Kampala, Uganda
From Kampala, the Kony 2012 hysteria is easy to […]
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Editor’s Note: We at The CIHA Blog thank you for your interest in our post critiquing the Kony 2012 campaign, which has received thousands of hits and was also picked […]
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By Jonathan Agensky, University of Cambridge
(This essay is part of a forthcoming scholarly article looking at the microphysics of evangelical humanitarian NGOs.)
Faith-based humanitarianism has become a […]
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By Duncan McNicholl
Last year, I began the Perspectives of Poverty photography project to demonstrate how carefully constructed images can lead us to very different conclusions about someone living […]
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By Cecelia Lynch
I sent the following email to the Directors of the UN Foundation (Timothy Wirth and Elizabeth Gore) after viewing a screening of the film, “When the Night Comes.” […]
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Laura J. Mitchell
In response to the prompt at the heart of the “Humanitarian Interventions in Africa” conference, I decided to focus on European […]
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Cecelia Lynch
Kibera, the Nairobi neighborhood usually called a slum that is home to between 600,000 and one million people (depending on who is counting, how, and […]
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