Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding (eBook)

Mohammed Abu-Nimer is professor of international peace and conflict resolution and director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute at the School of International Service, American University.Timothy Seidel is assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement at Eastern Mennonite University.

Introduction: The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding, by Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Timothy SeidelPart I: Educational Paths to PeacebuildingChapter 1: The Resolution of Conflicts and Building Unity, by Eugeniusz SakowiczChapter 2: Parallel Educational Paths to Peacebuilding, by Ori Z. SoltesChapter 3: Fethullah Gülen’s Pedagogical Ideas and their Practice in Central Asia, by Beishenaliev Almazbek BeishenalievichChapter 4: Iraqi Women of Three Generations, by Martha Ann KirkPart II: Overcoming “Otherness” and Living TogetherChapter 5: The Violence of Identity Formation and the Case of Hizmet Exceptionalism, by Jessica RehmanChapter 6: Peace-Building Initiatives in Nigeria, by Margaret A. JohnsonChapter 7: Hizmet Educational Institutions and the Kurdish Community, by Sophia PandyaChapter 8: Turkish Active Diplomacy in the Philippines as Inspired by Fethullah Gülen’s Ideas, by Henelito A. Sevilla, Jr.Part III: The Conceptual Foundations of the Hizmet Movement’s Approach to PeacebuildingChapter 9: Fractal Complexity in Fethullah Gülen’s Writings Dealing with Aspects of Peacebuilding, by Abdul Karim BanguraChapter 10: Service that Listens Loudly, by Thomas GageChapter 11: Plurality, Peacebuilding, and Islam, by Kajit BaguPart IV: Spirituality, Interfaith and Intra-faith Engagement toward PeacebuildingChapter 12: The Importance of Hizmet Movement in the Process of Peace Building in Ethiopia, by Teshome Berhanu KemalChapter 13: Paradigm of Service, by Shanthikumar HettiarachchiChapter 14: Conflict and Peacebuilding in a Multi-religious and Multi-ethnic State, by Amidu Olalekan SanniChapter 15: Gülen, Lederach, and Peacebuilding, by Simon Robinson