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Mexico: Persecution of Religious Minorities
(2013-08-30)
Mexico and the resulting sectarian hostilities from the 1960s through the 1990s, with particular attention paid to the Chiapas locality of San Juan Chamula, where the worst violence and anti-Protestant oppression occurred. ...
The Education and Social Justice Project: International Summer Research Fellowships 2015
(2016-01-29)
This report reflects on the sixth year of the Education and Social Justice Project, which provided four Georgetown University students with fellowships to travel to South Korea, Guatemala, Senegal, and Canada to conduct ...
Religious Dimensions of Development: Lessons at the Country Level
(2017-03-29)
This report summarizes and reflects on work that explored religious issues relevant for contemporary development challenges in several very different countries (Bangladesh, Kenya, Senegal, and Guatemala). All four countries ...
Refugees in Kenya: Roles of Faith
(2015-11-15)
The number of refugees globally has reached its highest level in 60 years. Finding ways to resolve protracted displacement is an urgent priority even as global humanitarian institutions struggle to cope with present ...
The Philippines: Religious Conflict Resolution on Mindanao
(2013-08-01)
This case study explores the over 40-year conflict between Muslim separatists and the government of the Christian-majority Philippines on the country’s southern island of Mindanao, placing particular focus on the peacebuilding ...
Faith and Development in Focus: Nigeria
(2018-05-15)
Nigeria’s vibrant and dynamic religious landscape plays many roles in the nation’s life and development. It is also a factor, albeit a complex one, in conflicts and violence that many see as linked to religious divides. ...
The Education and Social Justice Project: International Summer Research Fellowships 2017
(2018-02-15)
This report reflects on the eighth year of the Education and Social Justice Project, which provided four Georgetown University students with fellowships, allowing them to travel to Australia, the Dominican Republic, ...
Sudan: Race and Religion in Civil War
(2013-08-27)
This case study explores the background and bases for Sudan’s two civil wars (1955-1972 and 1983-2005), which pitted the powerful Muslim Arabs in the North against the Christian and indigenous Black Africans of the South. ...
South Africa: Religion and Democratic Transition
(2013-08-10)
This case study reviews the religious groups and individuals involved in the creation, perpetuation, resistance to, and eventual transition away from the apartheid government of South Africa, which featured the rule of the ...
The Education and Social Justice Project: International Summer Research Fellowships 2016
(2017-02-13)
This report reflects on the seventh year of the Education and Social Justice Project, which provided five Georgetown University students fellowships, allowing them to travel to Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Rwanda, and Slovenia ...