In the Field
part of the Centers of Innovation
Supporting Religious Communities in the Work of Peacemaking
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December 2009
USIP reports on how religious leaders are working to build peace in Sri Lanka after 26 years of civil war between the government and separatist rebels. Countries: Sri Lanka
| Issue Areas: Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture, Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict Activities, Religion
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April 2009
From March 31st to April 4th 2009, USIP’s Religion and Peacemaking program, working in partnership with the Council of Representatives’ Religious Affairs Committee, brought together twenty-five religious leaders, civil society activists, and academics from throughout Iraq to discuss religious violence in conflict and how to leverage religious resources in peacemaking. The participants were representative of Iraq’s pluralistic society: hailing from all eighteen provinces, they included both Shia and Suni Muslim, Christian, Yazidi, and Sabean Mandean faiths, Kurdish and Arab ethnic identity, male and female. |