Making Peace with Faith

Edited by Michelle Garred and Mohammed Abu-Nimer

In this text, practitioners from different faiths relate and explore the many challenges they face in their peacebuilding work, which their secular partners may be unaware of.

Introduction: Michelle Garred and Mohammed Abu-NimerPart One: Engaging One's Own FaithChapter 1: Articulating a Personal Theology of Interfaith Cooperation, Eboo PatelChapter 2: How Being a Jesus-Centered Peacemaker Guides, Inspires and Sustains My Peacemaking Efforts with Muslims, Rick LoveChapter 3: Journey of Redemption: The Role of an Apology in Reconciliation, Sushobha BarvePart Two: Engaging the OtherChapter 4: Listening our way to Peace, Yael PetrettiChapter 5: Faith-Based Peacebuilding in Pakistan: Not for the Faint of Heart, Azhar HussainChapter 6: It is not Easy to Follow Christ: The Road to Peace is a Rocky One, Maria Ida 'Deng' Giguiento with Myla LeguroPart Three: Engaging PolicyChapter 7: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Secular Approaches to Religion in Multilateral Settings, Azza KaramChapter 8: Tightrope-walking: Reconciling Faith Convictions with Impartial Peacebuilding, Peter DixonChapter 9: Peacebuilding as 'Countering Violent Extremism:' Exploring Contradictions in Faith and Practice, Dishani Jayaweera with Nirosha De SilvaPart Four: Confronting Injustice and TraumaChapter 10: Transforming Trauma: Wounded Healing in the Way of Jesus, Johonna TurnerChapter 11: Peace from the Soul of the Nurturer - The Gender Question, Despina NamwembeChapter 12: Reducing Violence through Better Theology, Qutub Jahan Kidwai