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Globally, where faith and political processes share the public
space with indigenous populations, religious leaders of tolerant
voice, who desire to transcend the conflict that often divides
their peoples, are coming forward. Affirming and enabling these
leaders is increasingly becoming the focus of the reconciliation
efforts of peace builders, both internally and externally to
existing conflict. By way of theoretical analysis and documented
case studies from a number of countries, Military Chaplains as
Agents of Peace considers Religious Leader Engagement (RLE) as an
emerging domain that advances the cause of reconciliation via the
religious peace building of chaplains: A construct that may be
generalized to expeditionary, humanitarian, and domestic
operational contexts. An overview of the benefits and limitations
of RLE is offered and accompanied by a candid discussion of a
number of the more perplexing questions related to such operational
ministry: Influence Activities, Information Gathering for
Intelligence Purposes, and the Protected (Non-Combatant) Status of
Chaplains.
Global crises-from pandemics to climate change-demonstrate the
vulnerability of the biosphere and each of us as individuals,
calling for responses guided by creative analysis and compassionate
reflection. Transforming, building on its companion volume,
Awakening, explores actions that create paths of understanding and
collaboration as the groundwork for transformative community. The
community of scholars in this volume offers perspectives that
collectively form a complex tapestry of resources. The volume
engages with the complex range of challenges and possibilities
across a variety of sectors, and provides an interdisciplinary
approach to the prospects for transformative healing of human and
non-human communities, and the global environment we inhabit.
Spirituality is essential to this, and, as such, the work explores
vital dimensions of emerging spiritual concepts, methods, and
practices that harbor interfaith potential for genuine
reconciliation and communion.
Global crises-from pandemics to climate change-demonstrate the
vulnerability of the biosphere and each of us as individuals,
calling for responses guided by creative analysis and compassionate
reflection. Transforming, building on its companion volume,
Awakening, explores actions that create paths of understanding and
collaboration as the groundwork for transformative community. The
community of scholars in this volume offers perspectives that
collectively form a complex tapestry of resources. The volume
engages with the complex range of challenges and possibilities
across a variety of sectors, and provides an interdisciplinary
approach to the prospects for transformative healing of human and
non-human communities, and the global environment we inhabit.
Spirituality is essential to this, and, as such, the work explores
vital dimensions of emerging spiritual concepts, methods, and
practices that harbor interfaith potential for genuine
reconciliation and communion.
The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as
Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments
such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. US military chaplains,
who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by
their war-fighting commanders to take on new roles beyond providing
religious services to the troops to also engage the local citizenry
and provide their commanders with assessments of the religious and
cultural landscape outside the base. More specifically, in the
Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan, chaplains have occasionally been
asked to provide their commanders with background on the religious
and cultural environment to which they deployed (e.g. Islam and the
Muslim world) and to reach out to local civilian clerics in hostile
territory in pursuit of peace and understanding. Despite some
internal resistance to this expansion of duties, some military
chaplains have engaged local religious authorities in order to
quell misunderstandings and promote peace in the former Yugoslavia,
Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Horn of Africa.In this edited volume,
practitioners and scholars chronicle the changes that have happened
in the field in the 21st century. For example, they explain how the
Multi-National Forces-Iraq command chaplain (who reported directly
to General Petraeus) worked with the NGO Foundation for
Reconciliation and Reconstruction in the Middle East, contributing
to a significant drop in sectarian violence. In the Horn of Africa,
the command chaplain, who was a Jewish rabbi, helped build
relationships between Muslims and Christians. In Afghanistan,
Muslim chaplains engaged with Sunni and Shia religious leaders to
develop local trust and Coalition and a training program for
religious leaders within the Afghan National Army. By looking at
the rapidly changing role of the military chaplain, this volume
raises issues critical to US foreign and national security policy
and diplomacy.
Globally, where faith and political processes share the public
space with indigenous populations, religious leaders of tolerant
voice, who desire to transcend the conflict that often divides
their peoples, are coming forward. Affirming and enabling these
leaders is increasingly becoming the focus of the reconciliation
efforts of peace builders, both internally and externally to
existing conflict. By way of theoretical analysis and documented
case studies from a number of countries, Military Chaplains as
Agents of Peace considers Religious Leader Engagement (RLE) as an
emerging domain that advances the cause of reconciliation via the
religious peace building of chaplains: A construct that may be
generalized to expeditionary, humanitarian, and domestic
operational contexts. An overview of the benefits and limitations
of RLE is offered and accompanied by a candid discussion of a
number of the more perplexing questions related to such operational
ministry: Influence Activities, Information Gathering for
Intelligence Purposes, and the Protected (Non-Combatant) Status of
Chaplains.
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