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Trans-faith Humanitarian Partnerships: The Case of Muslim Aid and the United Methodist Committee on Relief
European Journal of Development Research, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 510 - 528
Swansea University Author:
Gerard Clarke
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DOI (Published version): 10.1057/ejdr.2010.22
Abstract
Amid tentative recognition of the work of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in responding to humanitarian crises, I examine a novel inter-faith partnership between Muslim Aid, the UK’s second largest Islamic humanitarian agency, and the US-based United Methodist Committee on Relief, the official huma...
| Published in: | European Journal of Development Research |
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| ISSN: | 0957-8811 1743-9728 |
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2010
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Amid tentative recognition of the work of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in responding to humanitarian crises, I examine a novel inter-faith partnership between Muslim Aid, the UK’s second largest Islamic humanitarian agency, and the US-based United Methodist Committee on Relief, the official humanitarian agency of the United Methodist Church. In doing so, I look at why there are so few partnerships among Christian and Islamic humanitarian organisations, given the culturally plural circumstances in which humanitarian crises usually occur, and at what the case-study here reveals about the necessary prerequisites for such partnerships. Based on ethnographic methods, including interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation, I examine the origins of the partnership in August 2006 amid Sri Lanka’s civil war, and its subsequent development up to September 2008. Rather than trumpeting the partnership’s successes, I emphasise its novel nature and the significant precedent which it represents. |
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The article was winner of the EJDR Best Paper Prize in 2010. The prize is sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan and is awarded for the best paper published in the previous volume of the EJDR. The prize acknowledge well conducted and well-written research in the field of development studies published in the EJDR, and identifies and promotes potentially important contributions in conceptual development. The Prize is adjudicated by a panel of scholars selected from the EJDR's editorial board. The winner receives a certificate and a cheque for £500. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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4 |
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510 |
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528 |