CCRJ is pursuing research on the relationship between faith-based and secular actors in a range of areas including humanitarianism, human rights, law, education, migration, and transitional justice.

CCRJ scholars Leslie Vinjamuri and Stephen Hopgood are collaborating on a project that investigates contestation and collaboration between faith-based and secular actors in humanitarianism and at how 'market incentives' shape their strategies. This work is part of a project funded by the Luce Foundation and directed by Professor Michael Barnett, University of Minnesota.

Leslie Vinjamuri is pursuing ongoing research that conceptualizes the role of faith-based and secular actors engaged in transitional justice.  Aspects of this research are in collaboration with Dr Aaron Boesenecker (American University), Professor Daniel Philpott (Notre Dame's Kroc Institute) and Professor Jennifer Llewellyn (Dalhousie Law School). Charles Tripp's research addresses the question of to what degree politics in Iraq are driven by local issues rather than, amongst other things, faith. Matthew Nelson's research looks at the role of faith-based and secular education in Pakistan, and at questions surrounding legal pluralism in non Western contexts.