Refugees in Kenya: Roles of Faith
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Stoddard, Elisabeth
Marshall, Katherine
Abstract
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 realities. These global challenges have often poorly explored religious dimensions, positive and negative, as religious actors are vital players in the systems of humanitarian response and religious tensions play their part in the refugee and migrant flows themselves as well as in the lives of refugees. Kenya hosts the world’s largest refugee camp (the Dadaab complex) and thousands more refugees live in urban areas and in the Kakuma refugee camp. This report describes the work of a range of faith actors involved in refugee issues in Kenya, exploring various roles that religious beliefs and institutions play.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1052073Date Published
2015-11-15Rights
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Religion and Development; Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue; Migration and Refugees; Al-Shabaab; Conflict; Economics; Education; Environment; Extremism; Healthcare; Peacebuilding and Reconciliation; Race and Ethnicity; Refugees; Religious Minorities; United Nations; Terrorism; Anti-Racism; Collaboration with the Luce Foundation;
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Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
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Policy Brief: The Religious Dimensions of Refugees in Kenya
Stoddard, Elisabeth (Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2015-11-15)Kenya faces a protracted refugee crisis that is a human tragedy and strains national and international resources. The crisis includes significant and complex religious dimensions ranging from the central roles of religious ...