Dr. Emanuel Schäublin
Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 07 90
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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 develops understanding for how religion or worldviews shape the interests and political actions of specific conflict parties to contribute to more focused mediation efforts. His work involves (1) directing contextualizing research in conflict contexts, (2) providing facilitation and knowledge management support to dialogue processes, and (3) convening tailor-made mediation training and policy conversations.
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 research on Islam, ethics, surveillance, mutual aid, conflict dynamics, and ethnographic methods under political repression. One of his external page journal articles has won the 2020 Early Career Award by the Swiss Association for Social Science and Humanities and his monograph external page Divine Money: Islam, Zakat, and Giving in Palestine (Indiana UP, 2023) has received a 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize Honourable Mention as an outstanding book in the Anthropology of Religion.
Previously, Emanuel taught anthropology at the University of Zurich and conducted conflict-sensitive research on the politics of aid in contexts affected by the War on Terror at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.