scholarly journals Resolving Religious Conflicts Through Expanding Inter-Religious Communication: Issues and Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Peter Suwarno
Keyword(s):  
Peace Building ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Religious Communication

Konflik yang terkait dengan isu keagamaan sering timbul dengan sangat mudah. Tanpa menafikan hadirnya oknum provokator, konflik ini biasanya muncul karena rendahnya sikap saling pengertian dan terbatasnya komunikasi antar agama. Dalam artikel ini, penulis berpandangan bahwa mediasi –sebagai salah satu jalan keluar yang popular untuk mengatasi konflik keagamaan, yang lebih menekankan terwujudnya kesepakatan damai antar pemeluk agama– kurang cocok untuk kondisi di Indonesia. Berdasarkan analisis atas usaha untuk resolusi konflik keagamaan di Indonesia, upaya yang lebih cocok untuk dilakukan adalah yang mengarah pada upaya saling memahami antar kelompok agama yang berbeda-beda. Hal itu dapat diusahakan melalui peningkatan komunikasi antar pemeluk agama, termasuk melalui jalur pendidikan formal, dialog antar agama, hingga memperluas ruang publik untuk pengembangan tradisi peace building.

Claiming History in Religious Conflicts

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peace Building ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Reasoning ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
History Play

In what way did or does the past lend credence to religion and how did or does the formation of and departure from tradition affect claims to religious truth? How does historical reasoning contribute towards the unravelling of religious conflicts and what role does history play in concrete peace building processes? The contributions to this volume tackle these questions. Collectively, they take a decidedly multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, throwing light upon an important subject with significant contemporary reverberations.

scholarly journals Moral Suasion or Policy Reforms? How to Tackle Sectarian Violence in Pakistan: The Case Study of Gilgit-Baltistan

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 291-297
Author(s):  
Saranjam Muhammad Baig
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Sectarian Conflict ◽  
Implementation Failure ◽  
Gilgit Baltistan ◽  
The Impact

The existing literature in social sciences and humanities analyzing root causes of sectarian and religious conflicts focus mostly on micro-factors. The inability of market and state factors to control sectarian conflict for last seven decades remains understudied by the contemporary literature. This article aims at filling that gap and seeks to identify certain market and government failures that have implications on sectarian and religious conflicts. More specifically, it identifies four market failures namely asymmetries of information, externalities, equity and public goods and three government failures, which include democracy failure, bureaucratic failure and implementation failure. In contrast to the literature shedding light on the impact and gravity of sectarian and religious violence in the country, the purpose here remains to highlight important aspects of public policy reforms for peace making and peace building. This article, based on the aforementioned market and government failures, suggests a whole new set of policy reforms.

The Hizmet Movement: Negating Radicalism and Countering Extremism

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halim Demir
Keyword(s):  
Peace Building ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Hizmet Movement ◽  
Violent Conflicts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Education And Conflict

If the relationship between education and conflict is taken into account it can be said that education has a great potential to make a profound contribution to preventing violent conflicts. There is an increasing recognition on the fact that civil society plays a significant role in conflict management and peace-building by participating, engaging and educating the grass roots. As a civic society, the Hizmet movement utilizes social capital in order to alleviate ethno-religious divisions in heterogeneous multi-ethnic communities around the world, and strives to provide the basic pre-conditions for a peace-oriented society to emerge from those communities. This study argues that the Hizmet movement’s educational and social activities in conflict zones have been helpful in minimizing ethno-religious conflicts in order to prevent violence in conflict-ridden zones of the globe.

scholarly journals Ethno-Religious Conflicts in Nigeria: Implications on Women

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (5-1) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nkechi G. Onah ◽  
Benjamin C. Diara ◽  
Favour C. Uroko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Phenomenological Method ◽  
Nigerian Women ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Considerable Work ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract Ethno-Religious conflicts have continued to besiege Nigeria for decades. This paper aims to highlight some of the ethno-religious conflicts that have taken place in Nigeria and its impact on women. Considerable work has been done on the issue of Ethno-Religious conflicts in Nigeria but the implications of these on Nigerian women remains scanty. It is in recognition of this that this paper seeks to examine this. Using library findings as well as oral interviews, the paper notes that many women have lost their lives while many others have lost their children and/or their husbands. This situation has led to undue sufferings with the concomitant problems of poverty and penury among the women. Most significantly, it also leads to gender inequality. Gender inequality translates to political, economic and socio-religious marginalization of women in the society. In view of this, the researcher recommends among others that women should be allowed to be full actors in the process of peace building and conflict resolution in Nigeria. They should not be kept at the margin in political discourse. It further advocates that amidst these incessant ethno-religious conflicts that have plagued the nation, protection of women and children should be of paramount importance and all the violations of human rights of women and children addressed with the apt attention it deserves. The decriptive phenomenological method was adopted for the study.

scholarly journals MEMBANGUN RELASI UMAT BERAGAMA PASCA KONFLIK AGAMA DI TANJUNGBALAI

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fitriani Fitriani ◽  
Indra Harahap ◽  
Titah Utari
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Religious People ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Truth Claim ◽  
Triangle Theory

<pre><strong>Abstract</strong><strong></strong></pre><p><em>In order to create relations between religious communities on the basis of tolerance, it is very important to intensify dialogue between religious communities. Because dialogue is an appropriate resolution in building peace between religious communities. The research results found in this paper related to the post conflict that occurred in Tanjungbalai City is a bridge in creating harmony by fostering tolerance, caring for others and increasing solidarity among fellow communities in Tanjungbalai. This research is a field research. This research emphasizes the function of theory as a tool to sharpen the sensitivity of researchers in seeing religious conflicts in Tanjungbalai and formulating Johan Galtung's conflict triangle theory (peace keeping, peace making and peace building) as a means of building good relations after conflict. The purpose of this study is to build relationships between religious communities in the Tanjungbalai community by removing the truth claim of a religion, feeling suspicious and trying to be inclusive in religion. With this effort, it is expected that a harmonious relationship between religious communities will be created after the Burning of the Vihara in Tanjungbalai.</em></p><pre> </pre><pre><strong>Keywords:</strong> <em>Relationships, Religious People and Post-Conflict</em></pre><pre> </pre>

scholarly journals A Feminist Perspective and the Challenge of Post Conflict Development in Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Mashood Omotosho
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

In the last two decades, Africa has witnessed series of wars and ethno-religious conflicts with devastating impact on women. Various atrocities against women have been recorded during these conflicts and these developments have created a dangerous dimension against non-combatant women in the continent. In an attempt to resolve the conflict and armed conflict on women in the areas of sexual and gender-based violence, series of peace missions and peace building mechanism were put in place. Despite the various peace negotiations, evidence has shown that women are largely absent from formal peace negotiations and their voices are not heard both at local and continental levels especially within the modern-day challenges and post conflict development. In fact, the transformation agenda of post-conflict peace negotiations routinely failed to consider the gendered causes and consequences of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction. It is against this backdrop that this paper attempts to reassess the ambivalent role of women in conflict management in Africa. More importantly, the paper argues that there is need to increase women’s participation in peace talks, planning of demilitarisation, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and determining governance and security structures, especially in conflict prone areas. Ultimately, the paper seeks to also identify challenges hindering the role and the participation of women in post conflict development in Africa.

scholarly journals Asymmetric Decentralization and Peace Building: A Comparison of Aceh and Northern Ireland

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 254-275
Author(s):  
Ali Abdurahman ◽  
Bilal Dewansyah
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Government Functions ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
Asymmetric Form

This article compares the asymmetric form of decentralization model in the Aceh, Indonesia, and in the Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom, towards the process of peacemaking. In general, the decentralization models in the two regions have almost similar backgrounds due to prolonged religious conflicts. However, the devolution model in Northern Ireland is far more complex than Aceh’s, and closely related to other countries, that affect the constitutional status of Northern Ireland in the future. This is different from the Aceh government, which since the Helsinki MoU has remained a part of the Indonesia’s unitary form. On the other hand, in terms of governmental matters, decentralization in Aceh reflects a reduction in their special authority, with a pattern of division of government functions that is almost similar to the division of functions in the ordinary regional government. It is in contrast to the affairs of Northern Ireland’s government concerning matters that are categorized traditionally as the exclusive affairs of the central government in a unitary state, such as security matters. This provides a lesson for Indonesia that the issue of federalism in Aceh is indisputable and the Northern Ireland case reinforces the insight that federal state and unitary state have some degrees of similarity.

Religious Conflicts and Peace Building in Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-100
Author(s):  
Ian Linden ◽  
Thomas Thorp ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peace Building ◽  
Religious Conflicts
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