The Role of Churches in Rebuilding Community Relations

ISBN-13: 9783838358710 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 164 str.

Jean-Daniel Kabati

Opis

The purpose of this study is to predict and to determine whether the participation of churches in the South Kivu region during the period 1996-2006 in rebuilding broken intercommunity relations and addressing problems of conflict has made any tangible contribution towards the final outcomes of the political crisis that led the 2006 DRC elections. The study submits the collected data composed of religious, archival documents drawn from the church participation in armed-conflict problem resolutions, religious essays and interview response data to a careful analysis in order to distill an appropriate practical theological framework methodology for the investigation. A qualitative approach was used for data collection because the practical theological methodology applied by previous studies in this field endorses this approach as the most appropriate methodology for this type of research study. In its application of practical theological framework, the study adopted a collaborative approach as opposed to a participation involving only churches.

O autorze

He was born in Democratic Republic of Congo. He holds a Master of Arts Degree in Religions and Social Transformation from the University of Kwazulu Natal (South Africa). He has been invited to conferences and seminars in the US, the UK and African countries to present papers on the role of churches in the Great Lakes.