Religion and Reconciliation Action Guide
The “Religion and Reconciliation Action Guide” will help those who seek to organize, facilitate or support reconciliation efforts where faith matters to those involved. It is intended to be of use to both religious and secular practitioners who already have a basic understanding of reconciliation.
About the Author(s)
and Series Editor David Steele is former adjunct lecturer in conflict resolution and coexistence at Brandeis University and has thirty-five years’ experience facilitating interfaith peacebuilding on most continents. He has conducted conflict assessments, training workshops, and strategies for countering violent extremism with a wide variety of faith communities, utilizing indigenous and Western approaches. He has participated in track II diplomacy efforts and provided religious training for diplomats, governmental mediators, and aid agencies. He has authored numerous publications and holds a PhD in Christian ethics and practical theology from Edinburgh University. James Patton is the president and CEO of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD). He has conducted international development, conflict transformation, and social reconciliation for twenty-five years in dozens of countries. His nongovernmental experience includes advancing citizen security with Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities in the Andes, facilitating Cambodian Buddhists’ role in postconflict stability, and developing frameworks for training religious actors in preventing extremism in north Africa. His governmental experience includes leading stability operations assessments for the US Department of State in South Sudan. Tarek Maassarani is program director of the Salam Institute for Peace and Justice and a frequent trainer for the United States Institute of Peace. Tarek’s experience includes developing and implementing crossborder encounter programs, gang intervention efforts, community mediation and intergroup dialogue, nonviolent action, peace education programs, and restorative justice initiatives, as well as a variety of training and facilitation activities in the United States, the Middle East, and Africa. Tarek has taught university courses in conflict resolution and, as an attorney, practiced, published, and lectured in the area of human rights.