RT Article
T1 The Promise and Challenge of Multireligious Peacebuilding in the 21st Century: A Myanmar Case Study
JF Religions
VO 11
IS 3
A1 King, Anna S.
A1 Owen, Mark
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/172707064X
AB This article explores whether a relational approach to peacebuilding, shared multireligious perspectives and widening networks can bring sources of strength which enable positive peacebuilding and create grassroots, cross-community peace. While religious peacebuilding organizations have become the object of a burgeoning literature, the role of multireligious organisations in peacebuilding has received far less attention. The purpose of this paper is to redress this lack. By examining the influence, challenges and benefits of multireligious approaches to transnational peacebuilding, we hope to develop a sharper and more critically nuanced understanding of the potential role of multireligious organisations in global peacebuilding, and consider what, if anything, distinguishes them from secular and other faith-based organisations. We do so by analysing the impact of a project carried out in Myanmar by Religions for Peace. The project provides three case studies which offer unique opportunities to consider the limits and potential of multireligious grassroots interventions in conflict contexts with very different histories and cultural configurations.
K1 Myanmar
K1 Religions for Peace
K1 justpeace
K1 Multireligious
K1 Peacebuilding
K1 Religion
DO 10.3390/rel11030121