Mark Owen's research while affiliated with The University of Winchester and other places

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This article explores whether a relational approach to peacebuilding, shared multireligious perspectives and widening networks can bring sources of strength which enable positive peacebuilding and create grassroots, cross-community peace. While religious peacebuilding organizations have become the object of a burgeoning literature, the role of mult...
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The ‘risk assessment’ in peacebuilding has become a standard, if sometimes slightly formulaic and performative, element of project design and written proposals. Largely driven by donor requirements and organisational procedures, the relatively new discipline and practice recognised as ‘Religious Peacebuilding’ has taken on many of the elements of ‘...

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... Barbato, 2020;Barbato, Joustra, and Hoover, 2019), there are relatively few studies of IRD in international relations, and few of these are from religious studies standpoints, so much field and archival work may be done. A growing area for study, but with, as yet, no particular agreed methods, is how to evaluate or quantify the success of such work (on the expanding field, see Abu-Nimer and Nelson, 2021;Merdjanova and Brodeur, 2009;Owen and King, 2019;Woolf Centre, N.D.). The political narratives or agenda of such events and organisations also needs more analysis. ...