Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case Study
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 chal...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6d1e2957ee6b453591b0b42bd2b273ba2023-11-24T18:44:25ZengMDPI AGWorld2673-40602022-10-013484085710.3390/world3040047Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case StudyVineet Kapoor0William Flavin1Peter Ochs2Thomas Matyók3Essam Fahim4State Police Academy of Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal 462001, IndiaUS Army Peacekeeping Institute, Carlisle, PA 17013, USAReligious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USAJoint Civil-Military Interaction, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, GA 31206, USAHumanities and Social Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore 54792, PakistanUN 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/3/4/47United Nations peacekeepingcommunity policingIndiaethnic and inter-religious conflict |
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| title | Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case Study |
| title_full | Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case Study |
| title_fullStr | Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case Study |
| title_short | Community Policing Solutions for Religion-on-Religion Conflict: Lessons from an Indian Case Study |
| title_sort | community policing solutions for religion on religion conflict lessons from an indian case study |
| topic | United Nations peacekeeping community policing India ethnic and inter-religious conflict |
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