From 1999-2002, armed Christians and Muslims in Indonesia’s Maluku province waged a bitter civil war that left thousands dead as massacres against civilian populations were conducted by both sides. For a time, Maluku seemed doomed to endemic cycles of interreligious violence, with retaliation and vengeance fueling a cascading conflict. Eighteen years later, however, Maluku is at peace, and Christians and Muslims have undertaken a project of reconciliation. By examining the peace that was rapidly built in the wake of religious strife, this talk will examine the ways that interreligious reconciliation has taken place in Ambon, Maluku-Indonesia, and what greater lessons that peace in Maluku holds for the rest of the world.
The speaker, Lailatul Fitriyah, is a Ph.D Candidate at the World Religions and World Church Program, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame. She is also one of the founders of Feminist Theologies in Global Context Colloquium at Notre Dame. Her current research focuses on the construction of lived feminist theologies in postcolonial Southeast Asia, Christian and Islamic anthropological theologies, feminist theologies of migration, and feminist interreligious dialogue.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Rutgers International Institute for Peace at Rutgers University Newark, the American Institute for Indonesian Studies, and NYSEAN.
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