Salesians in Cambodia: The Shore Remains The Case Study of Don Bosco Kep
(2023) COSM40 20231Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Abstract
- This thesis explores how Salesian Institutes are related to religious peace-building in post-colonial and post-conflict Cambodia. It examines if and how the Catholic-Salesian multi-religious educational mission system is able to peacefully co-exist in a Buddhist Cambodian society, and collaborate with other minority religions present – Protestant, Muslim, and non-religious in promoting education for poor children and demoting inequalities. I conducted a 3-month mini ethnography and case study of Don Bosco Kep, one of the 5 Salesian communities in Cambodia, and analyzed the issue through Johan Galtung’s Negative and Positive Peace Framework with a special focus on the Positive Peace that overlaps with Salesian Preventive System that both... (More)
- This thesis explores how Salesian Institutes are related to religious peace-building in post-colonial and post-conflict Cambodia. It examines if and how the Catholic-Salesian multi-religious educational mission system is able to peacefully co-exist in a Buddhist Cambodian society, and collaborate with other minority religions present – Protestant, Muslim, and non-religious in promoting education for poor children and demoting inequalities. I conducted a 3-month mini ethnography and case study of Don Bosco Kep, one of the 5 Salesian communities in Cambodia, and analyzed the issue through Johan Galtung’s Negative and Positive Peace Framework with a special focus on the Positive Peace that overlaps with Salesian Preventive System that both seek to prevent conflict rather than end the already existing violence. I discovered that thanks to fulfilling 4 points of Galtung's Positive Peace, all the religious actors present at community missions were not only able to peacefully co-exist but also collaborate in poverty-alleviation which supported the advancement of the religious peace-building on a local community level in Kep, Cambodia. (Less)
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- author
- Vanková, Mária Dominika
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- COSM40 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- religious peace-building, friendship, dialogue, poverty-alleviation, Salesians of Don Bosco, Catholicism, Buddhism, Cambodia
- language
- English
- id
- 9142345
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- 2023-12-18 15:31:41
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