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As part of its global mapping of faith-inspired organizations in development work sponsored by the Luce/SFS Program on Religion and International Affairs, the Berkley Center has held consultations and developed publications and web resources focused on the Muslim World. In December 2007 the...
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Practitioners and Faith-Inspired Development
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> Lyn Lusi
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> Ruth Messinger
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> Abdul Mukti
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> William O'Keefe
> Thoraya Ahmed Obaid
> Olusegun Obasanjo
> Filiz Odabas-Geldiay
> Jacqueline Moturi Ogega
> Ted Olbrich
> Dele Olowu
> Manal Omar
> Robert Paarlberg
> John Padwick
> Prom Pauv
> Dominique Peccoud
> Ana Victoria Peláez Ponce
> Marie Juul Petersen
> Kathryn Poethig
> James Pond
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> Alvaro Ramazzini
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> Amina Rasul-Bernardo
> William Recant
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> Gene Reeves
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> Lisette van der Wel
Marie Juul Petersen
Marie Juul Petersen is a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen studying religion, philanthropy, and development, with a focus on international humanitarian Muslim NGOs (she is scheduled to complete her degree in October 2010). She earned an MA from the University of Copenhagen, looking at religious NGOs in the United Nations, and while completing her BA at Copenhagen did field work in Guatemala on Pentecostal churches and local development. She was a researcher with the Danish Institute for International Studies and a project coordinator for the Danish Institute for Human Rights; she has also worked in several NGOs in Latin America and Denmark. In December 2007 she participated in the symposium on “Global Development and Faith-Inspired Organizations in the Muslim World,” co-sponsored by the Berkley Center, while completing a study on Islam and civil society organizations in Egypt and Jordan with Sara Lei Sparre.
INTERVIEWS
A Discussion with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre, Islam and Civil Society in Jordan and Egypt
December 15, 2007
Background: This conversation between Marie Juul Petersen, Sara Lei Sparre, and Katherine Marshall took place as part of preparatory work for a December 2007 symposium on “Global Development and Faith-Inspired Organizations in the Muslim World,” co-sponsored by the Berkley Center. In this...