Conflicts on Campus: Universities as Sites of Interfaith Encounter

Dr Lucy Peacock talks about how interfaith engagement has great potential to tackle religion or belief-related hostility and foster peaceful student relations. However, the quality of interfaith provision varies massively across the university sector.

The broader ‘worldview’-related student unrest and activism is on the rise. Conflict about the Prevent Duty, gender issues and proselytization are live in universities, and student responses to unrest in the Middle East have gained significant media attention.

Despite this, there is little academic research into how students, particularly those for whom these debates raise religious questions, navigate these tensions. Universities need new approaches to relating across ideological and identity differences. Come along and hear how this project explores if and how interfaith might fill this gap.

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