Chapter 20: Striving for Justice and Peace on Earth, Catholic Peace Initiatives
Book Title
Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
978-1498525909
Publication Date
10-2015
Editors
Thomas Matyók, Maureen Flaherty, Hamdesa Tuso, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne
Keywords
Justice, peace, catholic peace initiatives, conflict studies, religion
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.
Publisher
Lexington Books
First Page
353
Last Page
374
Disciplines
Catholic Studies | Peace and Conflict Studies | Religion
NSUWorks Citation
Muvingi, Ismael. (2015). Chapter 20: Striving for Justice and Peace on Earth, Catholic Peace Initiatives. In Thomas Matyók, Maureen Flaherty, Hamdesa Tuso, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne (Eds.), Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies .