Arvind Dilawar in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
Qamar-ul Huda opens the first chapter of his new book Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam with the differing American and Norwegian approaches to Afghanistan, illustrating how international efforts to end wars and support peace in Muslim countries can be successful, especially when conducted on Islamic terms.
To orient readers with the realities of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, Huda, a professor of international affairs at the United States Naval Academy, first identifies the religious character of international organizations. As he writes, “one of the key problems with the field of religious peacebuilding, a subset in conflict resolution, is that it is dominated by Catholic, Mennonite, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, and other Christian scholars,” whose approaches have been “streamlined, systematized, and normalized […] while occasionally including Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist, Sikh, and other traditions to appear inclusive.”
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