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SUMMARY:(P27) Faith Beyond Frontiers: Exploring the Role of Religion in Southeast Asian Public Diplomacy
LOCATION:K10 | 2.40
DESCRIPTION:Against the backdrop of an increasing visibility of religion in
  national politics and international affairs, this panel aims to discuss ne
 wly developing configurations of religion in the public diplomacy strategie
 s of Southeast Asian countries. While recent scholarship has vividly debate
 d the incorporation of Islam into governmental foreign policy outlooks and 
 soft power agendas in Indonesia and Malaysia, the international diplomatic 
 role of other religions well-dispersed in Southeast Asia, such as Christian
 ism, Buddhism, Hinduism, or Confucianism, is understudied. By focusing on S
 outheast Asia and its grand religious diversity, this panel comparatively i
 nquires whether we can discern similar developments and broader trends of t
 he religion-public diplomacy nexus across nations, or whether the region is
  rather marked by country-specific, contrasting approaches toward the role 
 ascribed to religion on the international parquet. The panel welcomes contr
 ibutions on all religions (including Islam) and all Southeast Asian countri
 es that engage with the questions outlined below, but is open to suggestion
 s on related topics.\n\n- What conditions states to either make use of reli
 gion in public diplomacy or to restrict religious agency to the national or
  to the private sphere?\n- By what means do governments instrumentalize rel
 igion for public diplomacy, in foreign policy agendas, in crafting internat
 ional alliances, in confronting foreign political players, and in promoting
  themselves in the international sphere?\n- Can we observe differences betw
 een the individual religions and the qualitative depths and quantitative wi
 dth of their involvement in public diplomacy?\n- What religious-political d
 iscourses and national images are constructed by public diplomacy? How do t
 hese relate to the concept of religious soft power?\n- What strategic role 
 is religion given in international conflict resolution, peace- and dialogue
  work?\n- Are the local religious level and the global level linked through
  public diplomacy? How do domestic religious affairs and international aspi
 rations meet in public diplomacy? What role does public diplomacy play for 
 religious and political legitimization at the domestic level?\n- Besides st
 ate actors, what other actors are engaged in furthering religious aspects i
 n public diplomacy? Concretely, what role do religious non-state actors pla
 y (religious civil society organizations, individual charismatic religious 
 leaders, and actors from the religious economy and religious businesses)?\n
 - Can we observe a growing involvement of transnational religious education
  institutes and organizations (state-funded as well as private) in official
  public diplomacy? What role do religious “science diplomacy” and governmen
 t-initiated academic exchanges play?\n- In how far is religious public dipl
 omacy a terrain of women? (Having in mind recent diplomatic women initiativ
 es by the “Religions for Peace” project)
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/faith-beyond-frontiers-exploring-the-role-of-religion-in-southeast-asian-public-diplomacy
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