Concord, Conflict and Co-Existence: religion and society in the Middle East and North Africa
This is the editorial for the special issue ‘Concord, Conflict and Co-existence: Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa’.
Tag: Ethnic conflict
Remaking the City: Archaeological Projects of Political Import in Jerusalem’s Old City and in the Village of Silwan
Since the mid-90s, archaeology has been a powerful tool for changing landscape and narrative in the Old City of Jerusalem and the village of Silwan – the “Historic Basin of Jerusalem”. As archaeological excavations relate directly to the ap…
Strategic Engagement and Religious Peace-building: a case study of religious peace work in Jerusalem
This article argues for the importance of a dialogue for strategic engagement and presents an analytical approach to it with reference to three different peacebuilding strategies in terms of conflict resolution theories. As a case study exa…
The Role of the Temple Mount / Al-Haram Al-Sharif in the Deterioration of Muslim–Jewish Relations
For both Jews and Muslims the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem constitute highly important religious, cultural, political and national centres. For centuries Jews in the diaspora prayed in the direction of Jerusalem, vowed never t…