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Conflict Transformation and Religion

Essays on Faith, Power, and Relationship

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  1. Ellen Ott Marshall

    1. Emory University, Atlanta, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Learning Through Conflict, Working for Transformation

    • Ellen Ott Marshall
    Pages 1-12

  3. Transformative Solidarity: International Accompaniment as Conflict Transformation

    • Sarah MacDonald
    Pages 13-29

  4. “Word Made Flesh”: Toward a Pedagogy of a New We

    • Chris Rice
    Pages 31-49

  5. Serving as a Critical Friend to Men of Violence

    • Gary Mason
    Pages 51-65

  6. Living a Life of Love in the Midst of Trauma

    • Joshua M. Noblitt
    Pages 67-79

  7. Crossing Over: Transforming the War on Kids Through Ministries with Youth

    • Elizabeth Corrie
    Pages 81-96

  8. “I Am Because We Are”: A Relational Foundation for Transformation of Conflicts and Classrooms

    • Debbie Roberts
    Pages 97-109

  9. “Loves the Spirit”: Transformative Mediation as Pedagogical Practice

    • Marcia Y. Riggs
    Pages 111-124

  10. The Conflict Skills Classroom as Social Microcosm

    • Elizabeth M. Bounds
    Pages 125-137

  11. Questioning Assumptions Beneath Conflict Transformation

    • Edward Queen
    Pages 139-153

  12. Trauma, Transformation, and Transcendence

    • Shelly Rambo
    Pages 155-171

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 173-196
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About this book

Writing from a variety of contexts, the contributors to this volume describe the ways that conflict and their efforts to engage it constructively shape their work in classrooms and communities. Each chapter begins with a different experience of conflict—a physical confrontation, shooting and killing, ethnic violence, a hate crime, overt and covert racism, structural violence, interpersonal conflict in a family, and the marginalization of youth. The authors employ a variety of theoretical and practical responses to conflict, highlighting the role that faith, power, and relationships play in processes of transformation.  As these teachers and ministers engage conflict constructively, they put forward novel approaches toward teaching, training, care, solidarity, and advocacy.  Their stories demonstrate how conflict can serve as a site for positive change and transformation. 

Reviews

“The stories in this book are revelatory—inspiring, gritty, and true to the complexities of real-life conflict. This should be required reading for anyone engaging the suffering within our world or anyone who yearns for a redemptive way forward.” (Frank Rogers Jr., Muriel Bernice Roberts Professor of Spiritual Formation and Narrative Pedagogy and Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion, Claremont School of Theology, USA; author of “Practicing Compassion”)

“This volume is a healthy reminder of the need to take seriously not merely the immediate end of conflict through negotiated settlement, but the transformation of unjust systems that perpetuate societal divisions. These essays truly enrich the field of conflict transformation from both theoretical and confessional vantage points.” (Itonde A. Kakoma, Head of Region for Sub-Saharan Africa at the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), Martti Ahtisaari Centre, Finland)

“The humanity, humility, imagination, faith, commitment and wisdom of these authors is a great gift, showing how conflict transformation is always contextual, an art more than a technique, and a way of living that is transformative for the lives of the peace-builders themselves as well as the people they engage.” (Tom Porter, Lecturer and Director of the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program, Boston University School of Theology, USA; founding director of the JustPeace Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation, United Methodist Church)

“Each essay offers a creative approach for relating to a conflict in a way that transforms the narrator of the tale as much as the dynamics of the situation.  As a reader, I found my own heart being changed as well.” (Ann Garrido, Associate Professor of Homiletics, Aquinas Institute of Theology, USA; author of “Redeeming Conflict”)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Emory University, Atlanta, USA

    Ellen Ott Marshall

About the editor

Ellen Ott Marshall is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA. Her books include Choosing Peace through Daily Practices, Though the Fig Tree Does Not Blossom: Toward a Responsible Theology of Christian Hope, and Christians in the Public Square. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Conflict Transformation and Religion

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Faith, Power, and Relationship

  • Editors: Ellen Ott Marshall

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56840-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95402-5Published: 07 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56840-3Published: 08 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 196

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Comparative Religion, Social Aspects of Religion, Peace Studies, Conflict Studies

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