Making peace with God: what place for religion in United Nations mediation?
As representatives of the chief global peacemaking body, United Nations (UN) mediators are often deployed to conflict contexts where religion is important to warring parties. However, religion is largely absent from the academic and policy literature on UN mediation. In response, this study systemat...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| En: |
International peacekeeping
Año: 2024, Volumen: 31, Número: 4, Páginas: 442-472 |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Organización internacional
B Conflicto internacional B Religión B Meditación B Vereinte Nationen |
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| Sumario: | As representatives of the chief global peacemaking body, United Nations (UN) mediators are often deployed to conflict contexts where religion is important to warring parties. However, religion is largely absent from the academic and policy literature on UN mediation. In response, this study systematically explores the place of religion in UN mediation policy. To consider the extent to which religious issues, actors, values, norms, and identities inform the work of UN mediators, I thematically analyse all publicly available UN mediation guidance resources. I find that religion holds a more meaningful position in UN mediation than the literature suggests, and that the UN has taken positive steps to promote religious sensitivity among its mediators. However, the guidance is less clear as to how religion matters in conflict spaces, and my analysis reveals that religion tends to be understood in a tribal and depoliticized way. This view offers a reductive reading of the multiple and complex roles that religion plays across conflict environments, which may limit the success of UN peacemaking efforts. My findings highlight the importance of adequately understanding the role of worldviews and normative dispositions in spaces where the UN mediates, including, but not limited to, religion. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 465-472 |
| Descripción Física: | 1 Online-Ressource, Tabellen, Diagramme |
| ISSN: | 1743-906X |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: International peacekeeping
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2024.2337689 |
