It is not uncommon for religious and faith actors to be involved in localized peacebuilding processes. As communities often respect and trust religious and faith leaders, these actors are in a unique position to serve as influential peacebuilders. The Hidden Peacebuilders Project is research-practitioners collaboration aimed to amplify the role of local faith actors and their methods of peacebuilding. The project is global in its scope with a focus on Philippines & Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka & South Asia and South Sudan & East Africa. One of the key areas of the research-focused project is to produce toolkit’s that highlight cases from local faith actors and advice development and humanitarian NGO’s as well as peacebuilding (triple-nexus).
Hosted by MSU-IIT, the first meeting of the Hidden Peacebuilders Project was held in Mindanao. Subsequent meetings will be hosted in early 2020.
This project is conducted in a consortium, including: the Network, Islamic Relief Worldwide, World Vision, Centre for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation, Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), Eastern Mennonite University, MSU-IIT and Ateneo University. The consortium is led by Leeds University.