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New Column on Viceversaonline by Brenda Bartelink: Agents of Change

Young people are ‘agents of change’ writes our colleague Brenda Bartelink in her most recent post on viceversaonline.

Report of the debate on Syria: mosaic of ethnic and religious groups

The Knowledge Centre organised a meeting on the actual situation in Syria on December 18 at the Humanity House (The Hague). Arabist Mrs. Petra Stienen moderated the meeting.

Report of the meeting on HIV/AIDS and Islam. A seminar on HIV/AIDS from an Islamic perspective

Islamic Relief together with the Knowledge Centre on Religion and Development, organised a seminar round World AIDS Day.

Article Pieter van Os on religion in the public debate

Pieter van Os wrote an article on the present intolerance on religious expressions. He did this on the occasion of the lecture he gave for the Knowledge Centre in November 2012.

New Column on Viceversaonline by Brenda Bartelink

Our collegue Brenda Bartelink wrote a new column on the Vice Versa website, this time about Donating with passion.

Improvisation-workshop about Interest Free Banking at Conference on Sustainable Future, November 24

The KCRD participated in an improvisation-workshop at the conference The Future We Want (in Dutch). At this conference, both speakers and participants improvised how to reach a sustainable society. The KCRD was involved in a workhop on the monetary system.

Column: Religious Leaders and Development Aid

Our collegue Brenda Bartelink wrote again an inspiring column at the website viceversaonline. In it, she reflects on the contibution of religious leaders in concilliation. processes and social change (in Dutch)

Report of the Seminar: Society looking for....... religion?

This meeting took place at November 22, with a lecture by Pieter van Os, a column by Sophie van Bijsterveld, and an interesting Forumdiscussion. (report in Dutch)

Column: Uneasy sides of Transnationalism

Brenda Bartelink, our KCRD collegue, wrote a column on the Vice Versa website about the influence of national borders on development aid (in Dutch).

Lecture Bartelink: FBOs, reproduction and sexuality

On 25 September 2012, KCRD collegue Brenda Bartelink held a lecture on sexuality and religion in development

Public Lecture on Religion in the public domain with Pieter van Os and Sophie van Bijsterveld

The Tilburg University and the Knowledge Centre Religion and Development organized a lecture and debate on November 22 on the secular discomfort with religion in the public domain and the reactions of faith based organizations (in Dutch).

Lessons from a missionary

What lessons does the life history of missionary Father Theo in Tanzania contain for non governmental organisations in development?

It takes courage to discuss sexuality in churches

... says Brenda Bartelink, the new employee of the Knowledge Centre Religion and Development, based on a journey through Northern Ethiopia.

Believing in the House of the Other

Report of a Round-table meeting about growing tensions around the work of Christian developmentorganisations in India and Indonesia.

Report and presentations Seminar Islamic Development Finance

Presentations of the seminar held on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Gerrie ter Haar, holder of the Chair in Religion and Development, and the launch of her new book 'Religion and Development: Ways of Transforming the World'.

How unique is Faith Based Development Cooperation?

Presentation on January 31 organised by Mensen met een Missie, The Hague

Lecture on Ethics, Religion and International Cooperation by prof. dr. ir. Joris Voorhoeve

Book: Religion and Development: Ways of Transforming the World

New book edited by Gerrie ter Haar, Professor of Religion and Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and Chair of the Advisory Board of our KCRD.

Presentation at Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On June 30 the KCRD held a presentation at a seminar at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Religion and Diplomacy. At this seminar, the KCRD, prof. dr. H.J. Tieleman and prof. dr. M.J. Faber held a presentation about how to incorporate the role of religion in the work of Foreign Affairs.

Resonance at Konya meeting

"Today, it is as if various instruments resonate at the sound of one instrument; it does not matter from which tradition we speak, the wise words of the Sufi master Mevlana Rumi resonate in all our words". These words were spoken by Bikram Lalbahadoesing at the launch of the Konya Criteria, on June 16 in Amsterdam.

Faith Based Development Work: Contributing to Human (In)Security?

Mensen met a Missie organised a research presentation and discussion on: Faith-based Development Work: Contributing to Human (In)Security? - A field study from a ‘God forsaken Hill' in India by Salu Jacob Mooleparambil.

Workshops and lunch-lectures

The KCRD organises workshops and lunch-lectures on Religion and Development based on the recently published Practitioners' Guide. If you or your organisation are interested in this, please contact us at kenniscentrum@religie-en-ontwikkeling.nl.

Four new participants

We are proud to announce that since recently, four new organisations participate in the Knowledge Centre: Islamic Relief, Migrantenconsortium / Samenwerkende Moslim Hulp Organisaties (SMHO), Edukans and Mensen met een Missie.

Practitioner's guide available in English

Last April, the translation of the Practioner's guide in English was published (in pdf).

Report Presentation Practitioner's Guide and Lecture Dr. Ward Berenschot (in Dutch)

Op vrijdagmiddag 4 maart 2011 presenteerde het Kenniscentrum het praktijkboek 'Religie en Ontwikkeling. Handreikingen voor de praktijk'.

New website KCRD

Welcome to this new website of the Knowledge Centre Religion and Development.

Religion in plural

This article (in Dutch) forms the theological background of John Veldman

Proselytism

Proselytism confronts Western development workers in various ways. They may be confronted with national and international missionary activities from mostly Christian and Islamic organisations.On the other hand, Western development workers from Faith Based Organisations may be falsely accused of converting the people they work for.