Concluding Remarks on Peacebuilding Roles of Religious Leaders
In this chapter, I presented a model describing the role of religious leaders in the peacebuilding process. Using the chronological perspective, I outlined three scenarios of religious peacebuilding: preventive, reactive, and transformative with respect t
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Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding The Role of Religious Leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Stipe Odak
Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding The Role of Religious Leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stipe Odak Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain (ISPOLE) Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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To my parents
Preface: A Universe and an Origami
“Even before I start this writing, I know I will not be able to do justice to the project.”—I said to one of my interviewees, just 2 days before the end of my field research in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There were simply too many encounters, details, and rich experiences that did not seem translatable into clear structures of an academic work. It was a long journey. For the first time in my life, I visited all the regions of the country in which I was born and raised. It was a journey on which I had to change many of my initial conceptualizations and modify my research strategies. New insights arrived after each of the hours-long and often intimate interviews that I conducted. It was a personal journey as well. During lengthy night drives between cities, sentences from my respondents as well as the passages from random books often came to my mind. One of them was a line from Nicolas Bouvier’s L’usage du monde: “One believes that they are about to make a journey realizing soon enough that it is the jo
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