Can there be world peace with religion?

Research from the Religion and Peace Report shows that religion can facilitate greater peace and can have a positive role in peacebuilding. However, there are many religious leaders who have played significant roles in shaping peace, including Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Is religion a barrier to peace?

Others argue that religion has an ambivalent role, both destructive and constructive, and recognize religion as a force for peacebuilding. However, the study reveals that religion has no strong significant influence on conflict termination as well as on the reoccurrence of conflicts and the violence level.

What does Religions for Peace do?

Religions for Peace brings together different faith groups to fight immediate crises affecting their local communities. In doing so, these different groups organise and create structures to work effectively – laying a path for cooperation and trust.

Is religion a barrier?

One main communication barrier stemming from religion is individuals’ lack of knowledge or information about other religions and belief systems. These beliefs, or discrepancy between beliefs, can impact how people communicate with one another.

How do you manage differences in religious beliefs in a relationship?

“The most important asset in an interfaith relationship is respect,” Masini says. “You can agree to disagree — but you can’t disrespect and have things work. Acknowledge your religious differences and have open conversations [about them] throughout your relationship, but always respect each others’ religions.”

How does religion create peace?

Religion, however, can play an important role in peace-making and conflict prevention and resolution. Religion connects with peace in four major ways: The ideas of human dignity and the common humanity of all, derived from the notion that all are created in the image of the Divine, are foundational to true peace.

Can religion make a contribution to peacemaking?

The contribution that religion can make to peacemaking–as the flip side of religious conflict–is only beginning to be explored and explicated. All three of the Abrahamic faiths contain strong warrants for peacemaking. There are past cases of mediation and peacemaking by religious leaders and institutions.

How can we live in peace with one another?

Our religious practice should bring positive change to society and enhance mutual relationships among us in order to live in peace with one another. Know that peace or conflict can have an effect on us either as victims or perpetrators.

What can we do to promote peace in the world?

Stand together to challenge any form of injustice, and emphasize that PEACE cannot stand without JUSTICE. Use our religion as a means of fostering unity among all people.

How can faith be a basis for Peacebuilding and advocacy?

I learnt new perspectives about building peace, one of which is “Faith as a basis for peacebuilding and advocacy.” The religious leaders are the closest to the citizens at the grassroots. We have closer influence, and should therefore bear the burden of living in peace right from our hearts, our families and communities.