Role of Religion in Conflict Prevention for Social and Environmental Sustainability: Experiential Insights from India

C. Panduranga Bhatta ()
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C. Panduranga Bhatta: Indian Institute of Management

Chapter Chapter 3 in Essays on Sustainability and Management, 2017, pp 33-50 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Religious communities have emerged in the twenty-first century as key forces in a global age, and they are at the cutting edge of conflicts and confrontation. India has had a long tradition of peaceful co-operation among the different religious and philosophical systems. Insights obtained from these systems can be greatly helpful today in preventing and resolving conflicts for human sustenance and in developing an inclusive communication which can reduce much of the conflicts witnessed in the globalised world. The religious and philosophical thinkers of ancient India are known for accommodation, or compromise and their stand for a pacific, conciliatory, and synthesising attitude of mind. And this stand minimised differences and settled the principles and views through adjustment. People in different forums of the world are trying innovative solutions to prevent conflicts that haunt humanity. This chapter tries to provide detailed information about conflict prevention and resolution strategies, exemplars of inclusive communication in Indian religious and philosophical thought traditions from ancient, medieval and modern periods of Indian history besides giving some noteworthy examples of replicable proactive actions from the contemporary world for preventing and resolving conflicts.

Keywords: Philosophical System; Religious Pluralism; Religious Tolerance; Indian History; Conflict Prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-3123-6_3

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