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Advancing Australian 'shared security' : secular-religious peacebuilding networks
The role of religious leaders in promoting social cohesion and ‘shared security’ is increasingly being examined by scholars, as is the growing multifaith movement. The VIIIth World Assembly of Religions for Peace first proposed the notion of ‘shared security’ and the importance of religious leaders’ role in advancing such a concept in Kyoto 2006. A recent study, Managing the Impact of Global Crisis Events on Community Relations in Multicultural Australia (Bouma et al. 2007) has documented the impacts of international crisis events and discourses of exclusion on religiously diverse communities in Australia, in particular rising Islamophobia, migrantophobia and attacks on multiculturalism. Religious communities have been far from passive in their responses to the impact of these events initiating dialogue and educational activities to dispel negative stereotypes and attitudes. State actors, including police, have prioritized engagement with religious leaders resulting in a rise of state supported multifaith and secular-religious peacebuilding activities. This paper argues that, in response to global risks of terror and exclusion, secular-religious networks including religious leaders, state actors, educators and the media have the potential to advance ‘shared security’ in multifaith societies, by drawing on Australian experiences documented in the Global Crisis Events study.
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Australian Sociological Association. Conference (2007 : Auckland, N. Z.)Pagination
1 - 7Publisher
Sociological Association of Australia (TASA)Location
Auckland, N. Z.Place of publication
Auckland, N. Z.Start date
2007-12-04End date
2007-12-07Language
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Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.Publication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2007, The AuthorEditor/Contributor(s)
B Curtis, S Matthewman, T McIntoshTitle of proceedings
TASA 2007 Conference Proceedings : Public Sociologies : Lessons and Trans-Tasman ComparisonsUsage metrics
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