2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Rethinking the role of religion in peace, conflict and development: A post-western approach
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19K01506
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| Research Institution | International Christian University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | religon / International Relations / Development / Peacebuilding / Human Security / Conflict |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
From October 2022 until June 2023, I was appointed Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-relations/people/visiting-fellows/shani-giorgio) where I worked on my research project and made several presentations; first, at the Millennium conference, October 2022, on my recently published article (Giorgio Shani, From “Critical” Nationalism to “Asia as Method”: Tagore's Quest for a Moral Imaginary’ and Its Implications for Post-Western International Relations, Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 4, October 2022, ksac069, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksac069); second, online, in the virtual launch of the Review of International Studies special issue, Pluriversal Relationality ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/issue/01A3920A4D2097098C760C48E1B46F7C), co-hosted by the Department of International Relations at the LSE and the British International Studies Association on Feb 20; and, finally, a presentation on my research project in the International Theory seminar on Feb 27.I also was invited to give a keynote presentation at the 5th International Academic Conference on Human Security at the University of Belgrade where I spoke about the role of religion in peacebuilding, development and human security.
I was subsequently invited to give presentations at the "Seminaires Relations Internationales", Sciences Politique, Universite de Paris (April 25) and the International Political Science Research Seminar at the University of Aberystwyth, UK (May 2-3, 2023).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
I caught COVID on arrival in the UK and was hospitalized. This cause me to miss the European International STudies Association (EISA) Conference where I was a semi-plenary panelist (I participated online). Consequently, the project was slightly delayed.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Plans are progressing smoothly for a conference through the International Political Science Association (IPSA) to be held at Queen's University, Belfast on Religion and Politics. I am the co-convenor and program chair and will be presenting a series of panels, icluding the plenary, on my research project: the role which religion plays in peacebuilding and development. Please see here:https://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/CentrefortheStudyofEthnicConflict/IPSAColloquium2023TheNationasaSacredCommunion/. After the conference, it is anticipated that I will edit a volume on the conference theme and submit a proposal to either Routledge or Cambridge University Press (who have published my previous books).
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to hospitalization due to COVID upon arrival in the UK, I was needed to postpone the final conference organized through the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from September 12-1 to May 31 to June 2, 2023, in consultation with the local host, Queen's University of Belfast, UK.
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