NEWS

04/06/2012

NEW SECTION OF SPIRITUAL RESOURCES FOR CONFLICT MEDIATION

It is a selection of texts belonging to religious traditions speaking about peace and understanding.


The website of the International Network on Religions and Mediation in Urban Areas has created a new section of Spiritual Resources for mediation, as a result of a terminological research on sacred and/or reference texts of the major world religions.

This new section, presents a selection of texts and fragments belonging to religious traditions where we can find a series of terms related to peace and understanding. Our goal is that these “spiritual resources” may be useful in mediation and dialogue processes between people of different convictions and beliefs.

It is a work under construction, so far limited to Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions and to the English language. Nevertheless, it is being extended to other religions and we also expect to conduct it out in Spanish and Catalan.

The International Network is a platform to exchange –in person or online- good practices, theoretical materials and joint reflections on “Interreligious Mediation”. This concept refers to the scope of the prevention, mediation and transformation of conflicts where religion is somehow (not just negatively) involved. It is essentially open to the participation of people who are specialists or interested in and connected to civil organisations (religious, interreligious or non religious) and from public organisations (like administrations, institutions and local, regional, national or international services and authorities). The decision to establish the Network was the result of an international congress celebrated in Barcelona in December 2006 under the auspices of the UNESCO Sector for Social and Human Sciences and Culture.