Strategic Religious Engagement for Peacebuilding

Abstract

The U.S. Army Chaplaincy functions in its traditional roles as it exercises professional military religious leadership for the United States Army Family. At the same time the Chaplaincy is expanding its advisory capabilities to meet the needs of the combatant command in full spectrum operations, and is performing new tasks of conflict resolution through key political religious leader engagements, and religious and conflict analyses. Strategic Religious Engagement is respectful interaction with religion and culture that are operationally relevant to the efforts of peacebuilding in areas of persistent conflict. The U.S. Army Chaplaincy can advance positive gestures of reconciliation and address underlying issues of human needs while providing religious analysis to anticipate, avoid and abate emerging threats to security. The U.S. Army Chaplaincy, exercising an advisory function, is capable of enacting Strategic Religious Engagement in full spectrum operations to the end of contributing and supporting to a just and sustainable peace in a safe and secure environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 2009
Accession Number
ADA511162

Entities

People

  • Ira C. Houck Iii

Organizations

  • George Mason University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Geographic Regions
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Operations
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Religion
  • Security
  • Students
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design