Religion and Peacebuilding
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:
- 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
- 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
- Religious Engagement in Peacebuilding, including religion’s role in governance in conflict zones; and religions’ contributions to civil society peacebuilding initiatives.