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#Faith4Rights toolkit
Faith for Rights (2020), 116 pp.
Religion and Violence: The Potential for Conflict and Peace
Quezon City: Claretian Publications; Missio (2020), xvii, 258 pp.
Social Media and the Islamic State: Can Public Relations Succeed Where Conventional Diplomacy Failed?
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xv, 98 pp.
"This book examines how social media has transformed extremist discourse. It looks at how ISIS by a sophisticated use of social media platforms and PR concepts was able to recruit, mobilize and spread fundamentalist propaganda in regions where it had little physical presence. The volume focuses on t
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Filmemacher des Terrors: Die Bildpropaganda des globalen Dschihad
In: Diaspora: Netzwerke globaler Gemeinschaften
Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2019), pp. 147-160
"Die Medien und die breite Öffentlichkeit zeigen sich oftmals verwundert über die Perfektion der IS-Propaganda. Dabei wird übersehen, dass der Medienkrieg des Pseudo-Islamischen Staats auf einer ‚Großen Erzählung', einer ‚Meistererzählung' basiert, an der dschihadistische Organisationen se
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The Way, the Truth and the Life: Asian Religious Communication in the Post-Truth Climate
Religion and Social Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 19-40
"This paper proposes that Asian religions can address the challenges of the post-truth mindset by resorting to powerful images within their traditions to communicate within and across traditions in order to promote religious unity and harmony. It asserts that the images employed by Jesus to refer to
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Was Frieden schafft: Religiöse Friedensarbeit. Akteure - Beispiele - Methoden
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 230 pp.
"Markus A. Weingardt hat rund um den Globus Beispiele für religiöse Friedensarbeit zusammengetragen. Er beschreibt die politischen und sozialen Hintergründe schwelender, manifester oder auch überwundener Konflikte und ihre Auswirkungen, stellt die Akteure vor und beleuchtet, mit welcher Methodik
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How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), x, 217 pp.
"Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic communities acro
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Putting Faith in Hate: When Religion is the Source or Target of Hate Speech
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), ix, 161 pp.
"Richard Moon examines the application of hate speech laws when religion is either the source or target of such speech. Moon describes the various legal restrictions on hate speech, religious insult, and blasphemy in Canada, Europe and elsewhere, and uses cases from different jurisdictions to illust
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As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xi, 189 pp.
"Seib traces how terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how organi
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Engagierte Spiritualität: Friedensverantwortung asiatischer religiöser Akteure am Beispiel des Buddhismus und Hinduismus
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2017), 187 pp.
"Die Studie diskutiert das Friedenspotential nicht-abrahamitischer Religionen am Beispiel des Buddhismus und Hinduismus und das konkrete Friedensengagement jeweiliger Akteure. Dabei werden die Entstehung und Aktivitäten zentraler friedensstiftender Personen, Organisationen und Netzwerke des Buddhis
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Sunniten und Schiiten: Worum es in dem Konflikt wirklich geht
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 98 pp.
A Summary of the Study “Religious Extremism in the Media”
Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2017), 8 pp.
"The monitoring and the analysis carried out for the purpose of this study found out that the media and the institutional channels of mass communication of religious communities have behaved correctly while carrying out their duties, and have established a climate of communication that emits and fos
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"This Guide aims to help practitioners make sense of monitoring and evaluation as applied to inter-religious action in peacebuilding. It aims to support good practice among people who are involved in commissioning or contributing to such efforts, whether they be religious, secular or a combination o
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Religionen als Partner für Frieden in der Welt: Potenziale für die Außenpolitik
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2017), 111 pp.
"Wie thematisieren Staaten und internationale Organisationen Religion in den internationalen Beziehungen? Wodurch bauen sie Religionskompetenz in ihren Außenbeziehungen auf und wo arbeiten sie mit Religionsgemeinschaften erfolgreich zusammen? Was folgt daraus für Deutschlands Außenpolitik? Diese
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Gerechtigkeit für alle: Religiöser Sozialismus in Mission und Entwicklung
Geneva: Globethics.net (2016), 502 pp.
Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.
"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th
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Religious NGOs in International Relations: The Construction of "the Religious" and "the Secular"
London; New York: Routledge (2016), x, 217 pp.
"This book focuses on the construction of the human rights discourse inside two religiously affiliated organizations: The Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) and Pax Romana (IMCS / ICMICA). These organizations have been formally accredited as NGOs by the UN, label themselves a
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Boko Haram: Der Vormarsch des Terror-Kalifats
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 287 pp.
Religion, Hate Speech and Social Media in Myanmar: Analysing Methods of Intervention
University of Winchester, Master Thesis (2015), 77 pp.
"Myanmar is home to one of the longest running intrastate conflicts in the world, involving a series of ethnic and religious clashes that have caused harm to all parties involved. The ideology of a homogeneity based on Buddhism and the Bamar ethnicity has marginalized minority groups, which make up
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