Core Team

Dr Jocelyn Dautel, Professor Gladys Ganiel, Professor Fiona Magowan

Religion and Peacebuilding brings together scholars working in three broad areas, in Northern Ireland and in other global contexts:

1. Identity, Conflict and Societal Division, including the role of religious ideologies and structures in contributing to violence; Christian Zionism, apocalyptic and millennial ideologies and their sociopolitical impacts; selective information processing and truth in divided societies; and scientific approaches to defining religion and religious/non-religious identities
2. Peacebuilding and Education, including education’s role in shaping intergroup attitudes from childhood; integrated and shared education as tools for reconciliation; and religious education policy and peacebuilding
3. Religious Engagement in Peacebuilding, including religion’s role in governance in conflict zones; and religions’ contributions to civil society peacebuilding initiatives.