Sustainable Development and Religion: Accommodating Diversity in a Post-Secular age

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Alastair Ager

Alastair Ager has worked in the field of international development—with a focus on refugees and internally displaced communities—for 25 years, after originally training in psychology at the universities of Keele, Wales and Birmingham in the UK. He has wide international experience across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Europe, and North America, having worked as a consultant for agencies including UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children, World Vision, Oxfam, and Child Fund International. He is Director of the Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and Professor of Population and Family Health, Columbia University, USA.

Joey Ager

Joey Ager studied theology at Oxford University, with a focus on African theologies of liberation. He has worked with Sojourners, a faith-based social justice organization in Washington, DC, with Ember Arts, promoting women’s livelihoods in Uganda through fair trade, and as a researcher for the Joint Learning Initiative Hub on Resilience and Local Faith Communities. He is currently working as a community organizer with SDOP, a member of the PICO network of faith communities organizing around justice issues across the USA.