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Séverine Deneulin

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Director of International Development
Email:
severine.deneulin@campion.ox.ac.uk

Séverine is Director of International Development at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Associate Fellow at the Oxford Department of International Development. 

As Director of International Development at the LSRI, she works at bringing spiritual and theological traditions into dialogue with the social sciences on matters of global socio-economic development and sustainability. She leads the LSRI research cluster on Faith-Based Participation in Natural Resource Governance, and co-leads the research cluster on Christian-Muslim Dialogue on Integral Ecology with LSRI Research Affiliate Farhana Mayer. She has been coordinating a research project funded by the Ford Foundation on Faith Communities Defending Life in Latin America in partnership with the World Resource Institute, and is currently working with the Catholic Peace-Building Network at the University of Notre Dame on a project on the Catholic Church and mining, which aims at analysing local churches' responses to mining conflicts. She is also co-editing a resource book for Christian-Muslim collaboration on ecological action. 

Her most recent publications include: ‘Social equity and care for the earth: tensions and synergies in Latin America’; ‘Care for the Poor, Care for the Earth: Christian-Muslim Dialogue on Development’ (with Masooda Bano), Human Development and the Catholic Social Tradition (open access book); and Integral Human Development: The Capability Approach and Catholic Social Teaching (with Clemens Sedmak). 

She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute in the University of Notre Dame (2017-2018), and a Visiting Research Professor at the Catholic University of Argentina (2014-2015). Prior to joining the Laudato Si’ Research Institute in 2019, Séverine was Associate Professor in International Development at the University of Bath. 

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