Peace on Earth

Thomas Matyók is associate professor in the Program in Conflict and Peace Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is a co-editor of Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.Maureen Flaherty is assistant professor in peace and conflict studies at the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, St. Paul's College, University of Manitoba. She is the author of Peacebuilding with Women in Ukraine: Using Narrative to Envision a Common Future.Hamdesa Tuso is a faculty member at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies of the University of Manitoba. He is the founder of the Oromo Studies Association, and founder and director of the Africa Working Group.Jessica Senehi is associate professor of peace and conflict studies, and associate director of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, St. Paul's College at University of Manitoba. She co-authored with Sean Byrne, Violence: Analysis, Intervention, and Prevention, and coedited the Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.Sean Byrne is professor of peace and conflict studies, and founding head of the Ph.D. and joint MA programs in peace and conflict studies at University of Manitoba, and founding director of the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice housed in St. Paul's College at the University of Manitoba. He is author, co-author, and co-editor of numerous books, journal articles and book chapters.

Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed view of peace on earth, containing breadth as well as depth.

Chapter One: Can People of Faith, and People in Peace and Conflict Studies, Work Together?Thomas Matyók and Maureen FlahertyPart I: Peace and Conflict Studies in a Contextualized PlaceChapter Two: Religion, Peace and Violence: Tensions and PromisesDavid Creamer and Christopher HrynkowChapter Three: Ahimsa: A World without Violence?Klaus KlostermaierChapter Four Blessing-Based Love (Agape) As a Heuristic to Understanding Effective Reconciliation Practices: A Reading of I Corinthians 13 In a Peacebuilding ContextVern Neufeld RedekopPart II: Religions and Peace and Conflict StudiesChapter Five: Catholic Peacemaking: A History and Analysis with Special Emphasis on the Work of the Community of Sant 'EgidioJohn PerryChapter Six: Evangelical Women and Transformative PeacebuildingKristen Lundquist, Hien Vu, and Chris SeipleChapter Seven: Judaism and the Path to PeaceMichael LernerChapter Eight: Islam and Peace and Conflict StudiesNathan FunkChapter Nine: The Role of Indigenous African Religion in PeacemakingHamdesa TusoChapter Ten: Aboriginal Peoples' in Canada and the Role of Religion in Conflict: The Ever Elusive PeacePaul Nicolas CormierChapter Eleven: Mennonite International Peacebuilding and Local OwnershipChuck ThiessenChapter Twelve: Let Us See What Love Can Do: Quaker Contributions to Peacebuilding and Conflict TransformationVernie DavisChapter Thirteen: Haïtian Vodou: Peace Begins WithinMargret Mitchell ArmandChapter Fourteen: Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Provocations and Challenges for a Just Peace in an Era of Conflict and Global TransitionHarry AnastasiouChapter Fifteen: Ancient News from Buddha's Research Lab: the Role of Buddhism in Peace and Conflict SettingsKatharina BitzkerChapter Sixteen: Hinduism: War, Peace, and Peace and Conflict StudiesS. I. KeethaponcalanChapter Seventeen: Daoist Harmony as a Chinese WorldviewYueh-Ting Lee, Honggang Yang, and Min WangChapter Eighteen: Humanity's Coming of Age: A Bahá'í View of the Process toward World PeaceCharles EgertonChapter Nineteen: Religious Leader Engagement: Military Chaplains Engaging Indigenous Religious Leaders and Their Communities in Operations (Voices from the International Chaplaincy Community)S. K. MoorePart III: The Way Forward: Four Faith ModelsChapter Twenty: Striving for Justice and Peace on Earth, Catholic Peace InitiativesIsmael MuvingiChapter Twenty-One: Peacebuilding Principles and Values in Islam: Beyond the Basic FrameworkMohammed Abu-NimerChapter Twenty-Two: Peace on Earth: The Anabaptist-Mennonite PerspectiveLois EdmundChapter Twenty-Three: Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam: the 'Oasis of Peace'Deanna ArmbrusterChapter Twenty-Four: Conclusions: Peace on Earth RevisitedHamdesa Tuso, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne