Sharpening Conflict Management: Religious Leadership and the Double-edged Sword

by Joseph G. Bock

Book Overview

Bock begins with a description of ethnoreligious violence in the world today and then offers a case study about Hindu-Muslim riots in India that illustrates how religion is used to engineer violence by those who gain from it. The way that religion foments violence as compared to how it can be used to prevent it is analyzed in a chapter on the flash-point asymmetry problem. While religion in the direction of hatred seems to be sharp like a sword,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275974006
• ISBN13: 9780275974008
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"