PUBLICATIONS

Books

Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response. 2019. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

International Development and Local Faith Actors: Ideological and Cultural Encounters. 2020. Co-edited with Kathryn Kraft. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"A Social Norms Analysis of Religious Drivers of Child Marriage." 2024. Olivia Wilkinson, Kerida McDonald, Susanna Trotta, Jennifer Philippa Eggert and Florine de Wolf. Global Health: Science & Practice. Volume 12, Number 1. 

"NGO-isation, local faith actors and ‘legitimate’ humanitarian action in South Sudan." 2023.  Emma Tomalin & Olivia Wilkinson. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, Volume 5, Issue 2. 

"Secular-Religious Dynamics and their Effect on Humanitarian Norms Compliance." 2023. Olivia Wilkinson & Emma Tomalin. Journal of Human Rights Practice, online, in print pending. 

"Faith framing climate: a review of faith actors’ definitions and usage of climate change." 2023. Jodie Salter & Olivia Wilkinson. Climate and Development, Volume 16, Issue 2.

"Re-framing Common Themes in Religions and Development Research." 2022. Olivia Wilkinson. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Volume 20, Issue 4.  

"Humanitarian policymaking as networked governance: social network analysis of the Global Compact on Refugees." 2022. Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jay Balagna, Cyd Stacy Nam, Maya Casagrande & Olivia Wilkinson. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, Volume 7, Issue 22. 

"Topics of significance for international development from religions and COVID-19 research." 2022. Susanna Trotta, Olivia Wilkinson, and Katherine Marshall. Development in Practice, Volume 32, Issue 8.

"Faith in Localization? The experiences of local faith actors engaging with the international humanitarian system in South Sudan." 2022. Olivia Wilkinson, Kuyang Logo,  Emma Tomalin, Wani Laki Anthony, Florine de Wolf, and Asha Kurien. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, Volume 7, Issue 4.  

"Local Faith Actors and the Global Compact on Refugees." 2020. Heather Wurtz & Olivia Wilkinson. Migration and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 3, Issue 1. 

"'It's Being, Not Doing': Hospitality and Hostility between Local Faith Actors and International Humanitarian Organizations in Refugee Response." 2018. Olivia Wilkinson. Migration and Society: Advances in Research, Volume 1, Issue 1. 

“Secular Humanitarians and the Postsecular: Reflections from the Typhoon Haiyan Disaster Response.”  2018. Olivia Wilkinson. Journal of Contemporary Religion, Volume 33, Issue 2.

“Faith can come in, but not religion.” Secularity and its effects on the disaster response to Typhoon Haiyan.” 2017. Olivia Wilkinson. Disasters, Volume 42, Issue 3.

Editorial/Commentary Articles

"Putting the “Strategic” into Strategic Religious Engagement." 2021. Olivia Wilkinson. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Volume 19, Issue sup1.

Inaugural Editorial. A New Journal for a New Space: Introducing Religion & Development. 2021. Philipp Öhlmann, Olufunke Adeboye, Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Barbara Bompani, Nadine Bowers-Du Toit, Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Marie-Luise Frost, Wilhelm Gräb, Juliane Stork, Ignatius Swart, Tanya van Wyk & Olivia Wilkinson.  Religion and Development, Volume 1, Issue 1.  

Faith-sensitive MHPSS for humanitarian practitioners. 2021. Leonie Harsch, Olivia Wilkinson, and Corrie van der Ven. Forced Migration Review, Issue 66. 

Opinion: Religious groups should be engaged for COVID-19 vaccine delivery, 9 March 2021. Katherine Marshall & Olivia Wilkinson. Devex Global Views Op-Ed.

Book Chapters

"Secular-religious dynamics and inequalities in humanitarian action," Olivia Wilkinson & Jennifer P. Eggert. 2024. The Handbook of Humanitarianism and Inequality, Elgar, 

"Faith, Local Actors, and the Localization of International Humanitarian Response," Olivia Wilkinson. 2023. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration, Oxford University Press. 

"Local Faith Communities and Responses to Displacement," Susanna Trotta & Olivia Wilkinson. 2020. Handbook of Displacement, Palgrave.

“'As local as possible, as international as necessary': Investigating the place of religious and faith-based actors in the localization of the international humanitarian system," Olivia Wilkinson. 2020. Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society.

Manuscripts in  Preparation and Review

“Exploratory review of quantitative evidence in the study of religions and development: measuring the impact of faith-based interventions.” Religions & Development

Book reviews

God’s Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism. By David P. King.  8 Mar 2021. The Review of Faith and International Affairs. 

Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-Based Organisations: A Case from the African Migration Route. By May Ngo. 23 August 2019.  Journal of Refugee Studies.

Review of Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction, edited by Fred Kruger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, and E. Lisa F. Schipper. 13 July 2016. Journal of International Humanitarian Action.

Research reports and policy briefs

Emissions and Environmental Surveys With Faith Actors: A Pilot Project With the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. September 2023. World Resources Institute. Jodie Salter, Florencia Pulhin, Olivia Wilkinson and Chendan Yan.

The State of the Evidence in Religions and Development, June 2022. Editor. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities.

JLI’s Recommended Approach to Strategic Religious Engagement, June 2022. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities.

Two Years and Counting: COVID-19 Through a Religious Lens, March 2022. Working Paper. Washington DC: Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities; World Faiths Development Dialogue; Berkley Center on Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. With Katherine Marshall.

UNICEF Global Programme Guidance on Faith Engagement, 2021. New York: UNICEF. With Kerida McDonald. 

Understanding Inclusivity of Religious Diversity in Humanitarian Response, November 2021. Brighton and Washington DC: Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI). With Jennifer Eggert. 

Religious Actors, Healthcare, and COVID-19 Response. May 2021. Washington DC: Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy, 2021 Strategic Note on Religion and Diplomacy. 

UNICEF COVID-19 Guidance Documents: Faith and Positive Change for Children, Families, and Communities, July 2020. With the Faith-in-Action team (UNICEF, Religions for Peace, JLI). 

Bridge Builders: Strengthening the role of local faith actors in humanitarian response in South Sudan, June 2020. Islamic Relief, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, RedR UK, Tearfund, Tearfund Belgium, University of Leeds, with Prof Emma Tomalin, Kuyang Logo, Wani Laki Anthony and Florine De Wolf.

The Triple Nexus and Local Faith Actors in South Sudan: Findings from Primary Research, October 2019. DanChurch Aid, with Florine de Wolf and Moses Alier.

The Triple Nexus, Localization, and Local Faith Actors: The intersections between faith, humanitarian response, development, and peace. Literature Review, October 2019. DanChurch Aid, with Florine de Wolf. 

Faith and Positive Change for Children – Global Initiative on Social and Behaviour Change – Literature and Evidence Review, August 2019. UNICEF, with Bibiane van Mierlo and Susanna Trotta. 

Partnering with Local Faith Actors to Support Peaceful and Inclusive Societies, July 2019. Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD), with Susanna Trotta. 

A Guide to Action on Mobilizing Faith Communities to Welcome Migrants and Refugees, 20 June 2019. Religions for Peace, with Susanna Trotta, Atallah Fitzgibbon, Ganoune Diop, Maya Casagrande. 

Faith Actors and the Implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees, December 2018. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, with Susanna Trotta. 

Compendium of Case Studies on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to Achieve US Development Goals, 16 May 2018. USAID. 

Scoping Study on Local Faith Actors in Protracted Urban Displacement, October 2016. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, with Joey Ager. 

“The influence of religion on disaster risk reduction and resilience: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan-affected areas in the Philippines,” with Aaron Clark-Ginsberg. May 2017. The Youth Science-Policy Interface Publication-DRR Edition. UN Major Group for Children and Youth.

Student Guidelines for Ethical Fieldwork Overseas, November 2016. Irish Forum for Global Health and Development Studies Association of Ireland, with Brynne Gilmore and Bianca Van Bavel. 

Gender, Religion and Humanitarian Responses to Refugees, September 2016. Elena Fiddian- Qasmiyeh (ed.) with Sharifa Abdulaziz, Omayma El Ella, Elisabet Le Roux, Marie-Claude Poirier, Jose Riera-Cezanne, Helen Stawski, and Erin K. Wilson. Migration Research Unit Policy Briefings. London: University College London, September. 

Investing in humanity means supporting local faith communities’ work in reducing the impact of crises, May 2016. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities, with Alastair Ager, Anne Street, Sadia Kidwai and Janice Proud. 

Engaging local faith communities for sustainable capacity for prevention and response, with Alastair Ager, Tim Ingram, David Boan and Nobuyuki Asai. May 2016. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities.

Annotated Bibliography: The Evidence Base: Faith, Religion and Humanitarian Action, April 2016. Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities.

Faith and Resilience after Disaster: The Case of Typhoon Haiyan, November 2015. Dublin: Misean Cara. 

Invited Blog Posts

Two Stories of Emergent Agency from Faith Groups in COVID-19, 30 March 2022. With Katherine Marshall and James Huff. Post on the Berkley Center at Georgetown's Faith in Action blog.

Decolonisation, development and faith, 20 January 2022. With Jennifer Eggert and Emma Tomalin. Post on the University of Leeds' Religion in Public Blog. 

An uncomfortable truth? Religious diversity reality in most humanitarian settings, 2 November 2021. With Jennifer Eggert. Post on the Institute of Development Studies/CREID blog.

Secular-religious dynamics in Covid-19 response, 9 September 2020. Post on Religious Inequalities and the Impact of Covid-19 series, commissioned by the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).  Re-blogged at the Berkley Forum. 

COVID-19 Guidance on Reopening Religious Communities After Shutdown, 25 June 2020. With Katherine Marshall. Post on Berkley Forum, Georgetown University. 

COVID-19 Guidance for Religious Communities and Leaders, 8 May 2020. With Katherine Marshall. Post on Berkley Forum, Georgetown University. 

The opportunities and challenges of working with local faith actors in urban humanitarian response, 29 April 2020. Southern Responses to Displacement Blog, following ALNAP’s Urban Community of Practice webinar (transcript here). 

Religion and COVID-19: Four Lessons from the Ebola experience, 8 April 2020. With Katherine Marshall and Dave Robinson. Post on Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power Blog. 

Disaster-affected People's Understandings of Secular Humanitarianism, 3 March 2020. The Religion Factor blog (University of Groningen).

The State of the Evidence in Religion & Development Research, July 2019. Accord Research Alliance Webinar.

Local Faith Actors, Refugee Response, and Educational Initiatives, 11 March 2019. With Susanna Trotta. Berkley Forum, Georgetown University. 

"When Local Faith Actors meet Localisation." 7 Feb 2018. Refugee Hosts blog.

“Reflection and Connection: Religious Celebration in Times of Crisis.” 18 April 2017. Refugee Hosts blog. 

“All by Myself: what I have learned from doing fieldwork on my own.” 28 July 2016. Women Are Boring blog.

“Religion and Disaster Risk Reduction: A Review of the World Disasters Report 2014.” 3 November 2014. The Religion Factor blog (University of Groningen).

“Is there a secular humanitarian faith?” 24 September 2014. The Religion Factor blog (University of Groningen).

Prizes

Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions student essay prize 2016