Making Peace with Faith

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-Nimer
Part One: Engaging One's Own Faith
Chapter 1: Articulating a Personal Theology of Interfaith Cooperation, Eboo Patel
Chapter 2: How Being a Jesus-Centered Peacemaker Guides, Inspires and Sustains My Peacemaking Efforts with Muslims, Rick Love
Chapter 3: Journey of Redemption: The Role of an Apology in Reconciliation, Sushobha Barve
Part Two: Engaging the Other
Chapter 4: Listening our way to Peace, Yael Petretti
Chapter 5: Faith-Based Peacebuilding in Pakistan: Not for the Faint of Heart, Azhar Hussain
Chapter 6: It is not Easy to Follow Christ: The Road to Peace is a Rocky One, Maria Ida 'Deng' Giguiento with Myla Leguro
Part Three: Engaging Policy
Chapter 7: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Secular Approaches to Religion in Multilateral Settings, Azza Karam
Chapter 8: Tightrope-walking: Reconciling Faith Convictions with Impartial Peacebuilding, Peter Dixon
Chapter 9: Peacebuilding as 'Countering Violent Extremism:' Exploring Contradictions in Faith and Practice, Dishani Jayaweera with Nirosha De Silva
Part Four: Confronting Injustice and Trauma
Chapter 10: Transforming Trauma: Wounded Healing in the Way of Jesus, Johonna Turner
Chapter 11: Peace from the Soul of the Nurturer - The Gender Question, Despina Namwembe
Chapter 12: Reducing Violence through Better Theology, Qutub Jahan Kidwai