| CODE | DST5210 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Conflict, Religion and Reconciliation | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for the Study and Practice of Conflict Resolution | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to analyze the ways in which world religions play a role in conflict, war, peacemaking, and conflict resolution. It explores processes of acknowledgment, reconciliation, forgiveness, and restitution. Understanding each religion’s values, worldview, and, especially, the hermeneutics through which the religion changes and evolves, are the keys to discovering conflict resolution methodologies that may be effective in contexts in which religion is playing some role. List of Required Text Books - Abu-Nimer, Mohammed. 2003. Nonviolence And Peace Building In Islam: Theory And Practice. University Press of Florida, ISBN No. 0813027411 - Gopin, Marc. 2002. Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East. Oxford University Press, ISBN No. 0-19-514650-6 - Gopin, Marc. 2000. Between Eden and Armageddon. Oxford University Press, ISBN No. 0-19-513432-X - Appleby, R Scott. 1999. Ambivalence of the Sacred. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN No. 0-8476-8555-1. (Also available online at http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/apple/toc.htm) - Johnston, Douglas. 2003. Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik. Oxford University Press, ISBN No. 0-19-516089-4 - Johnston, Douglas et al. (Eds). 1995. Religion: The Missing Dimension of Statecraft. Oxford University Press, ISBN No. 0-19-510280-0 |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | George Mason University is responsible for this study-unit. | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Marc Gopin |
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