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A Requiem for Peacebuilding? Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather Than Disrupts Power

A Requiem for Peacebuilding? : Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves... [Religious actors are often portrayed as critical protagonists in efforts at peacebuilding and it should therefore come as no surprise that they have been engaged in and by International Peacebuilding too. In this chapter, Atalia Omer seeks to extend the discussion of religion and the practice of peacebuilding beyond the instrumental capacity of official and nonofficial religious actors to influence the outcomes and moves toward an analysis of how religiosity is (re)shaped when it is incorporated into internationally organized peacebuilding efforts—in casu: the organization of interreligious dialogue in Kenya. She observes that such processes foreclose internal hermeneutical innovations and critiques from the margins and privilege abstracted, ahistorical, and conservative accounts of tradition. Omer further emphasizes how the inclusion of religion into peacebuilding processes brings about the sectoralization of religion, whereby the ‘religious’ is added as a sector along with others invited to cultivate the ‘buy-in’ and ‘ownership’ of various policies. These various processes lead Omer to doubt the emancipatory effects of liberal peacebuilding. This research was enabled through an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship awarded to the author in 2017.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Requiem for Peacebuilding? Domestic Religion: Why Interreligious Dialogue in Kenya Conserves Rather Than Disrupts Power

Part of the Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Book Series
Editors: Kustermans, Jorg; Sauer, Tom; Segaert, Barbara
Omer, Atalia
A Requiem for Peacebuilding? — Dec 2, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-030-56476-6
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10.1007/978-3-030-56477-3_4
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Abstract

[Religious actors are often portrayed as critical protagonists in efforts at peacebuilding and it should therefore come as no surprise that they have been engaged in and by International Peacebuilding too. In this chapter, Atalia Omer seeks to extend the discussion of religion and the practice of peacebuilding beyond the instrumental capacity of official and nonofficial religious actors to influence the outcomes and moves toward an analysis of how religiosity is (re)shaped when it is incorporated into internationally organized peacebuilding efforts—in casu: the organization of interreligious dialogue in Kenya. She observes that such processes foreclose internal hermeneutical innovations and critiques from the margins and privilege abstracted, ahistorical, and conservative accounts of tradition. Omer further emphasizes how the inclusion of religion into peacebuilding processes brings about the sectoralization of religion, whereby the ‘religious’ is added as a sector along with others invited to cultivate the ‘buy-in’ and ‘ownership’ of various policies. These various processes lead Omer to doubt the emancipatory effects of liberal peacebuilding. This research was enabled through an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship awarded to the author in 2017.]

Published: Dec 2, 2020

Keywords: Religious peacebuilding; Decolonial peace; Religion and coloniality; Peacebuilding and development; Postsecular; Religion and development

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