On Teaching Peace: Considering the Potential of University Courses on Faith and Conflict Resolution

Religion and peacemaking is an area of growing interest in higher education. Providing an overview of the development of peace studies as an academic discipline and the later shift towards the study of religion, I present several programs that are attempting to bridge this gap and to mobilize religious leaders to engage in conflict resolution. I also introduce the importance of an intellectual framework called Covenantal Pluralism that allows for shared objectives to be charted across programs.