About event:
Kyiv School of Economics invites you to a seminar of the Laboratory for the study of religion at KSE: How religion can contribute to peacebuilding rather than war. At the meeting, we will analyze the understanding of peace as a process that we have already begun to develop, examples of peacemaking work with communities, religious groups and leaders to understand how the theory is being implemented in everyday practice today.
What is adaptive peace and what are its features? How is agonistic reconciliation possible and how can it be useful for Ukrainian communities? How do we imagine peace and is it different? How are spiritual leaders involved in the peacemaking process? Religious communities often remain in the shadows of public processes or are mentioned in public negative cases. Instead, communities of believers can have a positive impact on building peace and society, including for the cohesion of Ukrainians.
Speaker:
Tetyana Kalenychenko - PhD in Sociology of Religion, Visiting Researcher at Sankt Ignatios College (Sweden), co-founder of the organization Dialogue in Action. She has more than ten years of experience in peacebuilding, dialogue practices, conflictology and analytics, working with international organizations (USIP, OSCE, UNDP, USAID and others).
Moderator:
Andriy Fert - PhD in history, coordinator of the KSE Laboratory for the Study of Religion, lecturer in the program “Memory Studies and Public History”. He researches Soviet atheism and the influence of religion on collective memory.
Language:
Ukrainian