Religious
community has important role for Peacebuilding because of the power of their
understanding about non-violence teaching and location in the whole world and
teaching that contain much violence from the understandings until practices of
religious teaching they do.
The
power of understanding non-violence religious teaching can be traced from the
text or tradition they have. I do believe that there is no violence teaching
which would be basis of violence action. For instance, Islam understands Jihad
more as an internal struggle from our own desire (in Arabic word: nafs), not for killing each other. When
Islam command us for killing, it must be a reaction for the injustice condition
we get from the other, and still that it is a final action, not a first
reaction. This teaching can manifest in the tradition of the history of Islamic
community when they always do non-violence as first choice and do violence of
the last choice.
The
location of religious community also contributes to the importance of religious
community’s role. This location as defined by Heather Dubois on Religion and Peacebuilding plays in the two
areas: first is in the religious teaching itself, second is from the geographic
place. The religious actor has a special access for their teaching of religion,
such as official understanding, ritual or community’s segregation. We have to
realize when we believe that religious violence arises from the understanding
of religious teaching so the most important solution must emerge from the value
of religion itself. It is impossible to use another word from another
“location” as a source for resolving this problem. Religious beliefs and
understanding must be encountered by other religious of that itself, because
actually religion always gives the basis of truth and belief.
Geographic
location can be seen as the advantage of religious community because many religions
have spread on most of areas in the whole world. It is potential chance for
spreading the von-violence action. This will ease the efforts of peacebuilding
by three categories: in internal religious actor who has same religion, in
building relationship between two different religions, and the last is between
religious community and other group of society or state.
Although
the terminology of peacebuilding is still debatable between scholars,
peacebuilding is more important to be a practical things then academic debates.
The religious community as one of the group of society which is more related to
violence must take place for especially resolving non-violence based on
understanding of religious teaching. Based on my limited understanding about
many papers, we will never doubt that religious actor or community can play the
important role of peacebuilding.
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