Peace on earth : the role of religion in peace and conflict studies / edited by Thomas Matyók, Maureen Flaherty, Hamdesa Tuso, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne.

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ISBN:

9780739176290

9781306219181

Title:

Peace on earth : the role of religion in peace and conflict studies / edited by Thomas Matyók, Maureen Flaherty, Hamdesa Tuso, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne.

Author:

Matyók, Thomas, 1953- editor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 443 pages .)

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Can People of Faith, and People in Peace and Conflict Studies, Work Together?; Part I: Peace and Conflict Studies in a Contextualized Place; Chapter Two: Religion, Peace and Violence: Tensions and Promises; Chapter Three: Ahimsa; Chapter Four: Blessing-Based Love (Agapē) as a Heuristic Key to Understanding Effective Reconciliation Practices; Part II: Religions and Peace and Conflict Studies; Chapter Five: Catholic Peacemaking; Chapter Six: Evangelical Women and Transformative Peacebuilding; Chapter Seven: Judaism and the Path to Peace.

Chapter Eight: Islam and Peace and Conflict StudiesChapter Nine: The Role of Indigenous African Religion in Peacemaking; Chapter Ten: Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and the Role of Religion in Conflict; Chapter Eleven: Mennonite International Peacebuilding and Local Ownership; Chapter Twelve: Let Us See What Love Can Do; Chapter Thirteen: Haïtian Vodou; Chapter Fourteen: Eastern Orthodox Christianity; Chapter Fifteen: Ancient News from Buddha's Research Lab; Chapter Sixteen: Hinduism; Chapter Seventeen: Daoist Harmony as a Chinese Worldview; Chapter Eighteen: Humanity's Coming of Age.

Chapter Nineteen: Religious Leader EngagementPart III: The Way Forward: Four Faith Models; Chapter Twenty: Striving for Justice and Peace on Earth, Catholic Peace Initiatives; Chapter Twenty-one: Peace building Principles and Values in Islam; Chapter Twenty-two: Peace on Earth; Chapter Twenty-three: Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam; Chapter Twenty-four: Conclusions; Index; About the Contributors.

Subject Term:

Peace-building -- Religious aspects.

Conflict management -- Religious aspects.

Added Author:

Matyók, Thomas, 1953-

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Lanham, Maryland :

Lexington Books,

[2014]

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Summary

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.

Author Notes

Thomas Matyók is associate professor in the Program in Conflict and Peace Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is a co-editor of Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.

Maureen Flaherty is assistant professor in peace and conflict studies at the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba. She is the author of Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine: Using Narrative to Envision a Common Future.

Hamdesa Tuso is a faculty member at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Manitoba. He is the founder of the Oromo Studies Association, and founder and director of the Africa Working Group.

Jessica Senehi is associate professor of peace and conflict studies, and associate director of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, St. Paul's College at University of Manitoba. She co-authored with Sean Byrne, Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention, and coedited the Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Sean Byrne is professor of peace and conflict studies, and founding head of the Ph.D. and joint MA programs in peace and conflict studies at University of Manitoba, and founding director of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice housed in St. Paul's College at the University of Manitoba. He is author, co-author, and co-editor of numerous books, journal articles and book chapters.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Academic peace study programs frequently ignore religion as a partner in pursuit of conflict resolution. These 24 essays advocate religion as a vital, if partial, participant in any serious pursuit of lasting peace. Religion's absence in peace studies--and peacemaking--is a crippling lack. Contributors to this volume present casebook studies of religious groups involved in recent conflict resolution--successes and failures alike. Brief but nuanced accounts of several religious traditions, with their ambivalent histories of war and peace efforts, are excellent summaries of those traditions, and also show how they have fallen short of their ideals. Some religious groups, only rarely at the table, present the unique witness they have maintained, often in the face of persecution or marginalization because of their relative size or beliefs and practices at odds with dominant religions. The essay on military chaplains stands out, as it discusses going beyond the unarmed morale officer for war-weary troops, to becoming a middle-range actor in affirming that those outside the military unit are not "other." The essays demonstrate in diverse ways that religion can be the source of conflict, but also a source of peace building, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence. --Daniel A. Brown, California State University, Fullerton