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Salesians in Cambodia: The Shore Remains The Case Study of Don Bosco Kep

Vanková, Mária Dominika (2023) COSM40 20231
Centre 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
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
date added to LUP
2023-12-18 15:31:41
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2023-12-18 15:31:41
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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Vanková, Mária Dominika}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Salesians in Cambodia: The Shore Remains The Case Study of Don Bosco Kep}},
  year         = {{2023}},
}