Wayne Te Brake on #earlymodern #religiouspeace then and now. A great source of inspiration for RETOPEA - Religious Toleration and Peace EarlyModern_KULeuven

1/ One of my take-aways from reading Wayne Te Brake’s beautiful ‘Religious Peace’ is that, to our peril, we study the nexus of religion, war, & peace the wrong way. As we all love studying how things blow up, rather than how things are fostered or repaired, we overestimate ...

2/ ... the prevalence of religious conflict. If we realize that religious peace, however fragile, has been the historic norm, we can start to draw rather more hopeful normative lessons about how to restore, repair, & sustain religious peace in our own world. As he writes ...

3/ ..."In the broad sweep of world history,religious war has been episodic and variable rather than a constant. ...By contrast,religious peace has been more clearly a constant feature of the human condition, disrupted only episodically by violence, revolution, and war." In his...

... book, Wayne Te Brake makes a case that non-violent subversive action in civil society can bring about sustainable structural change that ultimately allows people to accommodate their differences and over time to reestablish religious peace. wipfandstock.com/9781666732344/…

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I will be presenting my work on religious peace (online) for the Modern History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London this afternoon @ 5:30pm (UK) and 1:30pm (New York). history.ac.uk/events/religio… The meeting is open, but you must register in advance.

The choice for Israel should be obvious. A violent raid freed 2 hostages and killed more than 60 Palestinians. A pause released 105 without casualties and good faith negotiations could free the rest. Violence is the problem not the solution.

Opposition to Palestinian rights has shaped U.S. federal anti-terrorism law from its beginnings. Since the 1960s, the government has used anti-terrorism law to target the Palestinian movement and stigmatize Palestinians as terrorists. By ⁦darryl li⁩ palestinelegal.org/news/anti-pale…

Join us for a captivating discussion with Professor Wayne Te Brake on nurturing religious peace post-conflict and discover how nonviolent subversion sustains enduring structures amidst upheaval. 🗓️ 05th April 2024Online. Please register via Eventbrite or contact Thomas Weber

'Religious Peace, Then & Now' - Pls join Centre for Global Security and Governance_ABDN & CASSIS Bonn a wk today (5 Apr) for an Aberdeen&Bonn Global Conversation with Wayne Te Brake on how religious peace can be nurtured,even after the most destructive conflicts,& thus make peace durable eventbrite.ca/e/wayne-te-bra…

If you were unable to attend the recent Centre for Global Security and Governance_ABDN and CASSIS Bonn event, you can now access the recording of Wayne Te Brake 's talk titled "Religious Peace Now and Then" on the CGSG YouTube channel. youtube.com/watch?v=S8YcyJ…

Hannah Beech's reporting has returned Myanmar's forgotten struggle against the military junta to the pages of the NY Times. See, for example: nytimes.com/interactive/20…; nytimes.com/video/world/as…; nytimes.com/2024/05/04/wor…