Contents

Articles

The Privilege Problematic in International Nonviolent Accompaniment’s Early Decades
Patrick G. Coy

Peace Brigades International is a human rights and nonviolent peacekeeping organization founded in 1981 by Gandhians and Quakers long active in international peace efforts.

Honoring Contracts as a Foundation of Peace
Mohammad S. Homayounvash
S. Amir Mirtaheri
"Traces of Humanity" in Indo-Pak History
Tridivesh Singh Maini

History of the South Asian Subcontinent is largely the history of a traumatic partition.

Countering the “New Jerusalem”
Sarah L. MacMillen

Jewish philosophers Gillian Rose and Hannah Arendt believed that the phenomenon of an ethnic state was a contradiction to any society claiming to be a democracy and that Israel in particular was he

The Peacemaker in Jewish-Rabbinic and Arab-Islamic Traditions
Daniel Roth
Should I Help the Empire with My Hand?
David Kratz Mathies

“Just Peacemaking” is the name given to a new paradigm advocated by Glen Stassen and an impressive collection of fellow scholars.

Case Study

Conflict-Sensitive Expressions of Faith in Mindanao: A Case Study
Michelle G. Garred with Sister Joan D. Castro

This case study explores a promising, though imperfect, new way of equipping religious actors to improve their own socio-political impact in societies vulnerable to destructive con

Indigenous History, Religious Theory, and the Archaeological Record
Will G. Russell,
Nanebah Nez, and
David Martinez

More than sixty years ago, North American anthropologist Anthony Wallace defined revitalization movements as “deliberate, organized, conscious effort[s] by members of a socie

Religion and Peacebuilding: Grassroots Efforts by Israelis and Palestinians
Frida Kerner Furman

“Israel Responds to Attacks by Bombing Gaza.” So reads the caption under a graphic photo of wounded Israeli soldiers lying on the ground, being treated by workers of the Magen David Ado

Book Reviews

Church, State, and Citizen

Church, State, and Citizen is a compendium of various essays that all address the issue of how Christians currently approach and have approached political engagement in th

Jesus and the Gang

The plethora of recent literature concerning the rise in youth-based violence in Latin America predominantly focuses on mechanisms and causes at the root of this trend, such as med

From Nonresistance to Justice

Ervin Stutzman, current Director of Mennonite Church USA, draws from his extensive pastoral, administrative, and academic background to offer a thoughtful interpretation of the con

The Spiritual Power of Nonviolence

Author George Wolfe, former director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Ball State University, is among an elite group of professors accused in Donald Horowitz’s

From the Editor

The Importance of Working with Scraps: Reconciliation in Difficult Contexts
Joseph C. Liechty

Every reconciliation process will require some level of agreement between antagonistic parties.

The Privilege Problematic in International Nonviolent Accompaniment’s Early Decades
Honoring Contracts as a Foundation of Peace
"Traces of Humanity" in Indo-Pak History
Countering the “New Jerusalem”
The Peacemaker in Jewish-Rabbinic and Arab-Islamic Traditions
Should I Help the Empire with My Hand?
Conflict-Sensitive Expressions of Faith in Mindanao: A Case Study
Indigenous History, Religious Theory, and the Archaeological Record
Religion and Peacebuilding: Grassroots Efforts by Israelis and Palestinians
Church, State, and Citizen
Jesus and the Gang
From Nonresistance to Justice
The Spiritual Power of Nonviolence
The Importance of Working with Scraps: Reconciliation in Difficult Contexts

Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace. Copyright © 2013.
Published by Plowshares: a Peace Studies Collaborative of Earlham and Goshen Colleges and Manchester University. Supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.
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