The Abrahamic Traditions and Environmental Change workshop held on 23-27 June 2019 in Rhodes, Greece builds on these past and present academic conversations with the aim of looking for a means through which the three Abrahamic faiths can help understand and counteract contemporary environmental change in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region towards a relevant, scalable and sustainable collaborative program between MENA scholars & practitioners and their North American and European partners.
Taken together, the three Abrahamic traditions include nearly half of the world’s population. All three originate from a similar ecological setting—the dry lands of southwestern Asia—a fact that functionally contributed, at least in the early times, to shaping the human-environment relationship and patterns of interaction.
This mapping of environmental activities is the result of the commitments made between Faith for Earth and the University of Connecticut (UCONN) after the Abrahamic Tradition and Environment Changes workshop. It is a collection of projects conducted by faith-based organisations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Here, some 40 projects out of the 68 projects we locate are introduced with their duration, objective, budget, activities, etc.
