Dr. Emanuel Schäublin

Schäublin, Emanuel

Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

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Emanuel Schaeublin is an anthropologist and researcher in the Mediation Support Team and its Culture and Religion in Mediation (CARIM) program.

He advises the United Nations, the European Union, and mediation actors on how worldviews shape political action in conflict and on how to set up dialogue processes involving parties with different worldviews. He develops tailor-made trainings, facilitates policy conversations, and manages research projects with a particular focus on:

  • Non-state governance
  • Research ethics and local knowledge production in conflict
  • Thinking across scales

Emanuel holds an MA in Arabic from the University of Geneva and a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Arabic and published external page award-winning research on ethics, surveillance, mutual aid, and ethnographic methods under political repression. Currently, he is co-directing the research project How Islamic Jurists Shape the Actions of Armed Groups and Craft Practical Solutions to Conflict.

Previously, Emanuel has convened the learning process Mediating Conflicts between Groups with Different Worldviews: Approaches and Methods. He has taught anthropology at the University of Zurich and worked for the Graduate Institute in Geneva conducting conflict-sensitive research on the politics of aid.

Selected Publications

Monograph

external page Schaeublin, Emanuel (2023) 'Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine', Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.

Articles

external page Schaeublin, Emanuel (2023) 'Civility as Collective Self-Care in Nablus (Palestine): Face-to-Face Interactions in the Shadow of War', Peacebuilding 11, 3: 288–301.

external page Schaeublin, Emanuel (2021) 'Counting Good and Bad Deeds under Military Rule: Islam and Divine Bookkeeping in Nablus (Palestine)', in: Clarke, Morgan; Corran, Emily (eds.) Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from Anthropology and History, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

external page Schaeublin, Emanuel (2020) 'Disconnected Accountabilities: Institutionalizing Islamic Giving in Nablus (Palestine)', Journal on Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society 4, 2: 28-60.

external page Schaeublin, Emanuel (2019) 'Islam in Face-to-Face Interaction: Direct Zakat Giving in Nablus (Palestine)', Contemporary Levant 4, 2: 122-140.

external page Schaeublin, Emanuel (2012) 'Role and Governance of Islamic Charitable Institutions: Gaza Zakat Organizations (1973-2011) in the Local Context', Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

external page Iwais, Mazen; Schaeublin, Emanuel (2011) 'Sacred Spaces and Funds: Awqaf Properties and Zakat Committees in Jerusalem', in Bernardi, Dontaella; Etienne, Noémie (eds.) Eternal Tour: Jerusalem, Geneva: Labor et Fides.

external page Schaeublin, Emanuel (2009) 'Role and Governance of Islamic Charitable Institutions: The West Bank Zakat Committees (1977-2009) in the Local Context', Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

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