Panel Discussion: With the Help of God(s)? Religious Actors and Sustainable Development in Africa
Abstract
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On 19 January 2022, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth & The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg presented the
Public online panel discussion
“With the Help of God(s)? Religious Actors and Sustainable Development in Africa”
On the African continent and elsewhere faith-based organizations provide health care services, religious groups offer education to kids and young adults, and religious leaders act as conflict mediators. At the same time, we hear about radical Christians performing crusades or Jihadi groups attacking villagers. Religious actors seem to be able to foster as well as undermine sustainable development. Today, a majority of African political leaders, Western governments, international organizations, and (I)NGOs acknowledge the relevant role of religious actors to bring about sustainable development and put great hope in their potential. What are these hopes based on? How do religion and sustainable development connect? Do they connect at all? And what challenges arise when religion and politics go hand in hand?
For the online panel discussion "With the Help of God(s)? Religious Actors and Sustainable Development in Africa" the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and GIGA invited the following participants:
Panel:
+ Damaris Parsitau (Egerton University, Njoro & African Association for the Study of Religion)
+ Eric Stollenwerk / Matthias Basedau (GIGA, Hamburg)
+ Eva Spies (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth)
Commentators/discussants:
+ Nabiela Farouq-Martius (GIZ)
+ Daniel Salau Rogei (Carleton University, Ottawa)
Chair: Paula Schrode (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth)
Introduction: Doris Löhr (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth)
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- Title
- Panel Discussion: With the Help of God(s)? Religious Actors and Sustainable Development in Africa
- Language
- English
- Date
- February 24, 2022
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- [Music] okay so good afternoon ladies and gentlemen dear colleagues and all interested parties on behalf of the africa multiple cluster of excellence and the giga institute i would like to welcome you to the public online discussion today we are very happy that some of the preliminary informal discussions between alexander stegerbeck from the cluster and the giga have eventually led to this event both institutes are associated with the keywords africa and policy research among others but both aim to facilitate science transfer into politics with theoretical and practice oriented approaches we hope that today's event will be an overture to further collaboration and that we might like to identify joint topics for teamwork besides the networking factor we are excited to present a highly current topic today and for that we have assembled great expertise on the channel and the pamphlet sorry on the panel so before i head over to the chair professor paula schroeder some housekeeping the event will be recorded if you don't want to be seen please turn off the camera and we have limited the chat that means you can only use the hands raising functions for your questions that answer answers so i hope without further ado i will hand over to the chair lean back enjoy and enjoy the afternoon thank you yeah thank you doris for this introduction and welcome everyone good to have so many people here interested in this um panel this afternoon so yeah i have the honor to substitute our colleague alexander schroederberg or to try and substitute him as the chair for the session um first of all i would like to introduce all um guests for this session as you see on the slide right now their names um so first we will have a contribution um by the marcus pascueta so the order of this event is that in the beginning we have um three research inputs and then we have two responses followed by a general discussion with all participants where you are also um allowed to join in so first we will… Read the full text about 15,314 words
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