Description
“Islam, Peace-Building and Conflict Management” is a unit in a module on “Religion, Conflict Management and Resolution.” The unit discusses in brief Islamic teachings related to Peace-building and conflict management both at individual-personal and social levels, highlighting potential opportunities and challenges of peacebuilding and conflict resolution in different situations, especially interreligious contexts. “Islam” literally derived from the lexical root which means “Peace” is a holistic worldview and value-system that presents its particular picture of man in the universe and puts forth its own roadmap for what it takes to be the ultimate perfection for man. As a systematic ideology, there are fundamental Islamic teachings about peace and conflict resolution which can be utilized in different situations to facilitate peace and minimize misunderstandings.
Objectives
· To familiarize students with peace and conflict resolution-related teachings in Islam,
· To make available potential means and tools for peacebuilding and conflict resolution in different interreligious contexts and situations,
· To enable students to constructively engage in or build peace-related dialogues with interreligious dimensions.
Outline
· Introduction
o Literal sense of Islam and its relevance to peacebuilding,
· Fitra or man’s state of nature in the Islamic scripture
· Roots of conflict and the respective peacebuilding tactics in Islam
o Individual and social dimensions of peace and conflict
· Peacebuilding and justice
· Jihad and struggle, types, roles and controversies
Assignments
1- What is the Islamic teaching about “man’s state of nature” and how does it relate to peacebuilding and conflict resolution?
2- What does “Jihad” mean (literally and technically) and what is the role of two types of Jihad in the Islamic ideology?
Sources
All related sources are accessible in the following link:
https://hlatifi.blogspot.com/2022/03/islam-peacebuilding-and-conflict.html
