Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements / Harold Coward, Gordon S. Smith
  • A moment of opportunity? the promise of religious peacebuilding in an era of religious and ethnic conflict / David Little, Scott Appleby
  • PART I. SPIRITUAL RESOURCES WITHIN RELIGIONS FOR PEACEBUILDING
  • In search of the white path: American Indian peacebuilding / Michelene E. Pesantubbee
  • Hinduism and peacebuilding / Rajmohan Gandhi
  • Missed opportunities: Buddhism and the ethnic strife in Sri Lanka and Tibet / Eva K. Neumaier
  • Confucianism and peacebuilding / Judith A. Berling
  • Judaism and peacebuilding / Marc Gopin
  • Islam and peacebuilding: continuities and transitions / Frederick M. Denny
  • Christianity and peacebuilding / Andrea Bartoli
  • PART II. CASE STUDIES IN RELIGION AND PEACEBUILDING
  • Creating spaces: interreligious initiatives for peace / Diane D'Souza
  • Case studies in religion and peacebuilding: Cambodia / Catherine Morris
  • History unrequited: religion as provocateur and peacemaker in the Bosnian conflict / Douglas M. Johnston, Jonathon Eastvold
  • Truth and reconciliation: the South Africa case / H. Russel Botman
  • Northern Ireland: religion and the peace process / Patrick Grant
  • Religious peacebuilding: from potential to action / Judy Carter, Gordon S. Smith.