Conflict Resolution
Regional Interfaith Dialogues actively promote ways to resolve conflict and build peace within the participant nations, resourced from their own cultures and faith traditions.
Interfaith Dialogue seeks to strengthen collaborative religious structures and networks for developing conflict resolution skills, innovative practices and proactive attitudes in areas of intercommunal conflict and the sharing of case studies of effective examples of responding to violence.
The Regional Interfaith Dialogues have promoted research on perceptions of conflict, training for religious and spiritual leaders in conflict resolution and peace-building, sharing of case studies and the promotion of the existing traditions of peacemaking and conflict resolution found within the different faith and indigenous traditions.
Opportunities for interaction, exchange and development of relations strengthen faith communities and provide useful foundations for interaction in times of stress, disaster and and peace.
Interfaith Initiatives in Conflict Resolution
RID Delegates and website participants are invited to submit contributions to this topic area, using the Contact form or the Submit News or Events page.
Reports:
Philippines NGO uses Interfaith Dialogue to resolve conflict
Peace and Tolerance in Mindanao
Religiously motivated violence is not religious
Practical Action
Reports:
Dhammayietra (Peace Walk) for Friendship and Harmony between Cambodia and Thailand
Intra-Buddhist and Interfaith Dialogue "Peace among Thais and Cambodians"
Cambodia: Understanding Interfaith Coexistence
Cambodia: Be Agent of Regional Change for Peace
Cambodia: Understanding Interfaith Coexistence
European Conference of Religious Leaders: Instanbul Declaration on Tolerance
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We, as leaders of faith communities, need to develop a more inclusive view of the religious other, to recognise the humanity of the religious other as a starting point. We need to recognise the essential equality of all human beings regardless of religious beliefs. We need to affirm the mutuality and interdependency of all people... We may need even to extend this and recognise that religious other may, just may, have at least some access to the Truth. We may need to accept that the religious others also adopts more or less the same set of essential universal ethical-moral principles we share; that the religious other has feelings of pain and pleasure just like us; that the religious other has similar expectations about their children and family and the preservation of life, property and security; and that the religious other has the same fears and anxieties about the world and the future, just like us.