Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case Study

Vineet Kapoor, William Flavin, Peter Ochs (), Thomas Matyók and Essam Fahim
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Vineet Kapoor: State Police Academy of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal 462001, India
William Flavin: US Army Peacekeeping Institute, Carlisle, PA 17013, USA
Peter Ochs: Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Thomas Matyók: Joint Civil-Military Interaction, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA 31206, USA
Essam Fahim: Humanities and Social Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore 54792, Pakistan

World, 2022, vol. 3, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: UN peacekeepers face new conditions of conflict today, which call for expanded peacekeeping strategies. Among these new conditions is the increasing localization of violent conflict, especially among extra-state forces that are mobilized by ideological and religious passions. Responding to such challenges, the UN and its multinational partners attend increasingly to regional and local settings of intergroup tension and conflict. Among the consequences are greater emphasis on relations between UN peacekeeping and local police forces and on community policing. In this essay, we argue that these new peacekeeping directions are promising but lack one key dimension: attention to unique behavioral features of local, religion-on-religion conflict. Because such conflict plays an increasing role in location-specific tension and violence, it is increasingly important for peacekeepers to learn how to identify and analyze these unique features in real time and then reshape peacekeeping strategies accordingly. To illustrate how it is possible to do so, we introduce a detailed case study of successful community policing of religion-on-religion conflict: Muslim-Hindu intergroup conflict in Madhya Pradesh India.

Keywords: United Nations peacekeeping; community policing; India; ethnic and inter-religious conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G17 G18 L21 L22 L25 L26 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 R51 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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