God in the process: Is there a place for religion in conflict resolution?

Goldberg, Rachel; Blancke, Brian

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“…Other scholars argue that the reconciliation frame is likely to be used by religious people who are more comfortable with individual-level change and don't want to agitate for the kinds of broader actions that might have more meaningful impacts of the lives of Black and brown people (Oyakawa 2019). Goldberg and Blancke (2011) argue that religion can be most helpful in conflict resolution when the beliefs and motivations of all parties are disclosed, something which takes a great deal of self-reflection and self-knowledge, and which can be challenging.…”

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Race and Faith: The Role of Congregations in Racial Justice

Glazier

Driskill

Hanson

2022

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In the summer of 2020, catalyzed by the killing of George Floyd, some places of worship more fully entered the conversation on race. Religious traditions often have tools for conflict resolution, repentance, and even reconciliation. How are congregations and religious leaders using the tools of religion to engage questions of racial justice? Our answers come through a multimethod data set collected over two years: (a) surveys of 2,293 congregants from 35 diverse congregations find that race relations is the issue they most want their place of worship to address; (b) 90 sermons from 15 congregations reveal how clergy talked about race in the weeks after Floyd’s murder depended on racial background; (c) 21 clergy interviews illustrate differences in how clergy use religion to engage on racial issues; and (d) interviews with seven national leaders and focus groups with six congregations resulted in a collection of publicly-available faith-based racial justice resources.

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Race and Faith: The Role of Congregations in Racial Justice

Glazier

Driskill

Hanson

2022

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Negotiating Symbolic Boundaries in Conflict Resolution: Religion and Ethnicity in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict

Türkmen

2018

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Challenges and Possibilities of Memory and Reconciliation: Empirical Evidence for Colombia

2023

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The signing of the peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) deepened the debate on the reconstruction of memory as a right of the victims and a way to advance in the reconciliation of Colombian society. This article uses data from the 2019 Colombian Reconciliation Barometer of the Program of Alliances for Reconciliation of the United States Agency for International Development and ACDI/VOCA to analyze the individual and contextual factors that affect how individuals perceive the reconstruction of memory as a tool that contributes to reconciliation. We estimated a probabilistic model for which the dependent variable is the predisposition toward memory reconstruction as a predictor of reconciliation based on the context of the Colombian armed conflict, and a set of individual factors that capture the effects of community initiatives and state institutions and programs arising within the framework of transitional justice. We sought to verify whether the characteristics of individuals and their way of relating to each other in a community and municipal context shape the perception of the contribution of reconstructed memory to reconciliation. The results show that being a female victim of the armed conflict, developing empathy, residing in municipalities with the presence of Places of Memory, and trusting in the processes of transitional justice -such as clarifying the truth-increase an individual's predisposition to consider that the reconstruction of memory contributes to reconciliation. In contrast, other policies and programs that emerged after the agreement, such as residing in municipalities with Territorially Focused Development Plans (PDET in Spanish) and the presence of Casas de Verdad (Truth Houses), operate in the opposite direction. This work suggests challenges for transitional justice by identifying the factors that condition positive outlooks toward the reconstruction of memory in reconciliation processes and opens the possibility of formulating actions with greater citizen acceptance.

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God in the process: Is there a place for religion in conflict resolution?

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Race and Faith: The Role of Congregations in Racial Justice

Race and Faith: The Role of Congregations in Racial Justice

Negotiating Symbolic Boundaries in Conflict Resolution: Religion and Ethnicity in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict

Challenges and Possibilities of Memory and Reconciliation: Empirical Evidence for Colombia

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