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Abstract
How do religious actors affect international politics and peacebuilding? As I discuss in my recent book, Global Issues, religious actors bring three “I’s” to global issues: institutions, ideas, and imagination. Governments may recognize the material side of religious actors, the first “I,” the vast networks of religious institutions, yet religious ideas and imagination are powerful in strategic peacebuilding. Strategic peacebuilding is comprehensive, sustainable, interdependent and integrated, and advances just peace. R. Scott Appleby’s work not only documents the strategic peacebuilding of faith-based actors; he expands the institutions and “architectonics” of strategic and religious peacebuilding.
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Maryann Cusimano Love
Maryann Cusimano Love is a tenured Associate Professor in the Politics Department of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She serves on the U.S. Catholic Bishops International Justice and Peace Committee, and on the Catholic Peacebuilding Network Advisory Board. She was a Fellow at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Recent books include Global Issues (Rowman & Littlefield 2020), and the New York Times best-selling book series, You Are My I Love You.