TY - JOUR

T1 - Youth Agency in Peacebuilding

AU - Anaya Jiménez, Lani

AU - Robinson, Matthew Ryan

N1 - Special Issue:Healing Wounded Memories Through Interreligious Perspective and Engagement Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. The Ecumenical Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of World Council of Churches.

PY - 2022/12

Y1 - 2022/12

N2 - More than 600 million young people today live in economically and environmentally fragile contexts. Scholarly literature on the interconnections between these young people and religion has often portrayed them as prone to radicalization and drawn to violent extremism. Such framings, however, render invisible their potential as agents for positive change. In this article, we take a step back to consider more basic questions about the socio-political significance of youth leadership in (inter)religious contexts for the cultivation of peace. In particular, we focus on youth, religion, and religious representations of insider and outsider “others.” In this article, we report on the youth-focused programme Enemy, Stranger, Neighbor, Friend, aiming to contribute to understanding the complexities that youth working in conflict prevention, informal peace education, and interreligious work face and the contributions they can make.

AB - More than 600 million young people today live in economically and environmentally fragile contexts. Scholarly literature on the interconnections between these young people and religion has often portrayed them as prone to radicalization and drawn to violent extremism. Such framings, however, render invisible their potential as agents for positive change. In this article, we take a step back to consider more basic questions about the socio-political significance of youth leadership in (inter)religious contexts for the cultivation of peace. In particular, we focus on youth, religion, and religious representations of insider and outsider “others.” In this article, we report on the youth-focused programme Enemy, Stranger, Neighbor, Friend, aiming to contribute to understanding the complexities that youth working in conflict prevention, informal peace education, and interreligious work face and the contributions they can make.

KW - community

KW - interreligious cooperation

KW - othering

KW - peacebuilding

KW - youth

KW - Theology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146697286&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/erev.12745

DO - 10.1111/erev.12745

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85146697286

VL - 74

SP - 760

EP - 781

JO - Ecumenical Review

JF - Ecumenical Review

SN - 0013-0796

IS - 5

ER -