Approaching Religion in Conflict Transformation

Concepts, Cases and Practical Implications

Author(s): Owen Frazer, Richard Friedli
Series Editor(s): Simon Mason
Series: CSS Mediation Resources
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2015

This paper is written for policy makers and conflict transformation practitioners working on conflicts with religious dimensions. It aims to support policy and practice by providing a conceptual framework to strengthen analysis of the role that religion plays in conflict. It draws both on academic writing on the nature of religion, and accounts of conflict transformation initiatives, to propose a framework that is a useful balance between academic complexity and the simplicity necessary for it to be of practical application. Richard Friedli has also published an article in German that offers a summary of this publication. Click below to download “Religion ambivalent: Religionswissenschat, Mediation und Konlikttransformation”, published in the Zeitschrift für Missions- und Religionswissenschaft

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Series: CSS Mediation Resources