Resources

Learning About Religion and Development

Find trainings and learning tools to broaden your knowledge about the links between religion and development. Explore and discover the important role of religion in sustainable development. The free online trainings, courses, and resources listed here are created by experts and actors in the field.

Introduction to Religion and Peacebuilding

Online course | Introduction to Religion and Peacebuilding aims to contribute to the ways in which religion can support peacebuilding, particularly reconciliation and mediation, to analyse religious dimensions to peace and conflict through a case study and to provide understanding of the importance of applying a gender lens in religious peacebuilding.

  • Course developer: The USIP Academy
  • Language of delivery: English
  • Type: Online course (self-paced)
  • Price: Free
  • Content & duration: 5 sections, including a case study (3-5 hours)
  • Year: 2020
  • More information: https://www.usip.org/academy...

Religion & Development

Online course | Religion & Development provides an overview on the overlap of both topics. It aims to teach multilateral partnership building between secular and religious actors.

  • Course developer: ACT Alliance, Danida, GIZ and Swedish Mission Council
  • Language of delivery: English
  • Type: Online course (self-paced)
  • Price: Free
  • Content & duration: 10 modules of around 10 to 15 minutes
  • Year: 2020
  • More information: https://fabo.org/enrol/?id=531

Religious Engagement in Peacebuilding – A Common Ground Approach

Online course | Religious Engagement in Peacebuilding – A Shared Approach provides knowledge for all those working in peacebuilding who want to gain more confidence in working with religious actors and institutions.

  • Course developer: Search for Common Ground; The USIP Academy
  • Language of delivery: English, French, Arabic
  • Type: Online course (self-paced)
  • Price: Free
  • Content & duration: Six chapters, total of 14-17 hours
  • Year: 2020
  • More information: https://www.usip.org/academy/catalog/…

Why Religion Matters: Religious Literacy, Culture and Diversity

Online training | Why Religion Matters: Religious Education, Culture and Diversity aims to provide a broader understanding of why religion matters in society and in different cultures.

  • Course developer: The Open University, o4af.com
  • Language of delivery: English
  • Type: Online training (self-paced)
  • Price: Free
  • Content & duration: 4 modules stretched over 4 weeks (3 hours per week)
  • Year: 2020
  • More information: https://o4af.com/opportunity/free-online-course…

Assessing Faith-Based Actors’ Contributions to the SDGs

Online training | Assessing Faith-Based Actors Contributions to the SDGs aims to encourage and enable RBOs to explore how their current work links to the SDGs, and to make these links in their work more visible and more intentional.
It is a shortened version of the Online Course “Engaging Faith Actors to Support the Implementation Process of the Sustainable Development Goals”.

Engaging Faith Actors to Support the Implementation Process of the Sustainable Development Goals

Online training | Engaging Faith Actors to Support the Implementation Process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognises the importance of religious leaders and Religious-Based Organisations (RBOs) cooperating closely with national and international stakeholders to fully achieve the implementation of the SDGs. To this end, the course provides training to ensure that the implementation of the SDGs is inclusive and participatory.

  • Course developer: KAICIID Dialogue Center
  • Language of delivery: English
  • Type: Online training (self-paced)
  • Price: Free
  • Content & duration: 7 modules for 7 weeks (3 hours per week)
  • Year: 2022
  • More information: https://www.kaiciid.org/dialogue-knowledge-hub/…

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