RT Article
T1 Youth Agency in Peacebuilding: Reframing the Relationship between Youth, Leadership, and Religion
JF The ecumenical review
VO 74
IS 5
SP 760
OP 781
A1 Anaya Jiménez, Lani
A1 Robinson, Matthew Ryan 1982-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1831758598
AB More than 600 million young people today live in economically and environmentally fragile contexts. Scholarly literature on the interconnections between these young people and religion has often portrayed them as prone to radicalization and drawn to violent extremism. Such framings, however, render invisible their potential as agents for positive change. In this article, we take a step back to consider more basic questions about the socio-political significance of youth leadership in (inter)religious contexts for the cultivation of peace. In particular, we focus on youth, religion, and religious representations of insider and outsider “others.” In this article, we report on the youth-focused programme Enemy, Stranger, Neighbor, Friend, aiming to contribute to understanding the complexities that youth working in conflict prevention, informal peace education, and interreligious work face and the contributions they can make.
K1 Othering
K1 Community
K1 interreligious cooperation
K1 Peacebuilding
K1 Youth
DO 10.1111/erev.12745