This paper is written for policy makers and conflict transformation practitioners working on conflicts with religious dimensions. It aims to support policy and practice by providing a conceptual framework to strengthen analysis of the role that religion plays in conflict.

It draws both on academic writing on the nature of religion and on case studies of conflict transformation initiatives to propose a framework that is a useful balance between academic complexity and the simplicity necessary for it to be of practical application. By helping policy-makers and practitioners to be more specific about religion’s role in conflict, the proposed framework can help to support the design of conflict transformation approaches that take account of the role of religion

It contains 34 pages.