Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies

Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
ISBN-10
0739176293
ISBN-13
9780739176290
Series
Peace on Earth
Category
Religion
Pages
500
Language
English
Published
2013-12-16
Publisher
Lexington Books
Authors
Thomas Matyók, Jessica Senehi, Sean Byrne

Description

Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth. Library and bookstore shelves are filled with critiques of the negative impacts of religion in conflict scenarios. Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies offers an alternate view that suggests religious organizations play a more complex role in conflict than a simply negative one. Faith-based organizations, and their workers, are often found on the frontlines of conflict throughout the world, conducting conflict management and resolution activities as well as advancing peacebuilding initiatives.

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