Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation, and Peace Studies

This book, achieved in cooperation with the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA), focuses on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and shifts toward approaching the reconciliation process as an inter-, trans- and multidisciplinary field. The research presented in the series focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, highlighting contributions by practitioners and scholars alike.

The book is divided into five sections:

Sections 1: Theoretical and Philosophical Framework

Section 2: Digital Humanities on Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation, and Peace Studies

Section 3: Research Science on Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation, and Peace Studies

Section 4: Practices of Studies on Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation, and Peace Studies

Section 5: Cases Studies on Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation, and Peace Studies

The book’s first part focuses on theories and the philosophical framework for the research on reconciliation, conflict transformation, and peace studies. The second part of the book is dedicated to digital humanities development in the reconciliation and peace education field, its impact on the reconciliation process in societies, and the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in analysis techniques to differentiate and identify research in different domains. The book’s third part is dedicated to the research on reconciliation and conflict transformation in different disciplines. The fourth part concentrates on the practices in the field, and the fifth part illustrates case studies on reconciliation, conflict transformation, and peace studies.

The target audience is professors, scholars, practitioners, students, and scientists that are experts in the field of Middle East and North Africa.

Dr. phil. Iyad Al-Dajani is a researcher and an expert on violence and religious peacemaking and reconciliation through applied Internet communication technologies (ICT) and online social networks and media analysis. In addition, he researches Digital Humanities (Data Science) in innovative studies such as methodologies and analytics, primarily concerned with Applied Ethics, Practical Philosophy into methods used for ICT technologies, and researching theories of Applied Phronesis in ICT. He is the founder and executive research director of the academic alliance for reconciliation in the Middle East and North Africa.

Most of Dr. Al-Dajani's research areas are in Applied Computer Science and Digital Humanities for reconciliation process and peace education. He earned his Ph.D. and Dr.Phill title from Friedrich Schiller University and was awarded a certificate of completion for the Executive Education Program from Harvard Kennedy School of Government atHarvard University in cybersecurity: The intersection of policy, and in Leading in Artificial Intelligence and Exploring Technology and Policy Programs. A certificate from Oxford University in the Oxford Artificial Intelligence program from Saïd Business School, and a Reference Class Forecasting practitioner for the Oxford Global Projects Academy. Masters in Regional & American Studies, and B.S. in computer science."

Dr. Al-Dajani received his Ph.D. in Communication Science from Friedrich-Schiller University and specialized in Applied Phronesis in Internet Communication Research Methodologies. He is a Certified Analyst using Nvivo for Windows in applying academic research methodologies for researching Data Science. Author of a book―Internet Communication Technologies for Reconciliation, Applied Phronesis Netnography in Internet Research Methodologies―Dr. Al-Dajani has also decided to go deep into the highly dynamic field of scientific approaches to Internet Big Data and Reconciliation Studies. He has received the Albert Schweitzer Golden Medalion for science and arts which is a scientific honor. He is awarded CHEVALIER DES BELGES,” Nobel Knight” The cross of hope from Pope Francis and research award from Trends Research in Dubai.

Martin Leiner is a German Protestant theologian. He holds a Chair in Systematic Theology/Ethics at the Faculty of Theology at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. He is also the founder and director of the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, and the Founder and Director of the scientific board for the Academica Alliance for Reconciliation in the Middle East and North Africa AARMENA Program.

From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Leiner was Assistant Professor and Professor for Systematic Theology and Hermeneutics at the University of Neuchâtel, in the Francophone part of Switzerland. From 2000-2002, he was the President of the Institute Romand de Systématique et d´Éthique (IRSE) in Geneva andhas been a permanent member of the Board of the Ethikzentrum at the FSU since 2003.