Tom’s and the Religious Ethics of Aid
by Cecelia Lynch
What are good ways to assist people in need, no matter where they are from? What needs are imagined or exaggerated when those who want to give have […]
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In the News: Foundations’ Giving Behavior
by Akosua Adomako Ampofo
If most private foundations (in the US) have endowments of less than $50m, indeed more like $10m, and most, despite this, ‘give’ more than the legally-required minimum […]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on the Third Anniversary of the Revolution
by Kelsey P. Norman
On last year’s anniversary of Egypt’s Revolution, January 25, 2013, the Muslim Brotherhood held power in Egypt via former President Mohamed Morsi. One month prior, the group […]
In the News: New Research on the African Diaspora
A conference at the University of California, Irvine, titled “Liberated Africans and Digital Humanities: African Diaspora Reconsidered,” was held in early October, organized around themes of slavery, freedom, race, and […]
The ethics of conditional cash transfers
The CIHA Blog has developed a partnership with Pambazuka News, which is produced and published by Fahamu, based in Oxford, Dakar, and Nairobi. This piece was originally posted […]
In the News: Gates on Humanitarianism
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has released its 2014 Gates Annual Letter, which spells out the foundation’s view of “three myths that block progress for the poor”: poor […]
In the News: The Aid and Development Debate Redux
The CIHA Blog previously posted about Nina Monk‘s new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. A few months later, William Easterly, a professor […]
In the News: CAR Interfaith Peacebuilding Efforts
Out of the Central African Republic comes reports of increasing human rights violations and recruitment of child soldiers for sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian militias. Yet Nyeko […]