Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia
This article aims to promote mediation as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism to deal with interreligious skirmishes taking place in Malaysia. This is in view of the increasing statistics of interreligious disputes reported in the media. The reason for recommending interreligious mediatio...
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| description | This article aims to promote mediation as an alternative dispute
resolution mechanism to deal with interreligious skirmishes taking place in
Malaysia. This is in view of the increasing statistics of interreligious disputes
reported in the media. The reason for recommending interreligious mediation
is due to its constructive nature in peacebuilding initiatives and its successful
stories across the globe. The article discusses the potential actors of religious
mediators and their requirements as well as the processes and conditions for a
successful mediation. The article also highlights the need for certified training
to make a credible mediator. Using mainly textual research, the article managed
to gather and analyse the meaning and concept, historical background and the
structure of mediation. Since mediation is new in Malaysia, the article found
that the government’s role is crucial in its institutionalization; hence the article
proposes that the Ministry of National Unity leads the initiative. |
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| spelling | iium-815802020-11-12T03:14:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/81580/ Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia Ibrahim, Haslina Maidin, Ainul Jaria BL Religion This article aims to promote mediation as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism to deal with interreligious skirmishes taking place in Malaysia. This is in view of the increasing statistics of interreligious disputes reported in the media. The reason for recommending interreligious mediation is due to its constructive nature in peacebuilding initiatives and its successful stories across the globe. The article discusses the potential actors of religious mediators and their requirements as well as the processes and conditions for a successful mediation. The article also highlights the need for certified training to make a credible mediator. Using mainly textual research, the article managed to gather and analyse the meaning and concept, historical background and the structure of mediation. Since mediation is new in Malaysia, the article found that the government’s role is crucial in its institutionalization; hence the article proposes that the Ministry of National Unity leads the initiative. IIUM Press 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/81580/1/81580_Mediation%20and%20interreligious%20discourse_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/81580/2/81580_Mediation%20and%20interreligious%20discourse_scopus.pdf Ibrahim, Haslina and Maidin, Ainul Jaria (2020) Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia. Intellectual Discourse, 28 (1). pp. 35-59. ISSN 0128-4878 E-ISSN 2289-5639 https://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/id/article/view/1564/910 |
| spellingShingle | BL Religion Ibrahim, Haslina Maidin, Ainul Jaria Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia |
| title | Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and
challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia |
| title_full | Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and
challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and
challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and
challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia |
| title_short | Mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and
challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in Malaysia |
| title_sort | mediation and interreligious discourse: prospects and
challenges in resolving interreligious skirmishes in malaysia |
| topic | BL Religion |
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