Faith Based Agencies ? Promoters of Development or Part of the Problem? February 9, 2006

The LSE Centre for Civil Society (Department of Social Policy) is hosting a Public Debate on "Faith Based Agencies ? Promoters of Development or Part of the Problem?"

Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Mohammed Kroessin, Dr Dalep Mukarji and Dr James Putzel
Chair: Professor Jude Howell

Do faith based agencies play a role that is distinct from secular organisations in development and relief processes? And have such organisations contributed, contemporarily or historically, to development processes?

Mohammed Kroessin is the assistant CEO of Muslim Aid. Dr Dalep Mukarji is director of Christian Aid. Dr James Putzel is director of the Crisis States Research Centre, LSE Development Studies Institute.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first serve basis.

See http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2006/20051215t1410z001.htm. For further information email events@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.