Beyond Brokenness: A Desire-Based Framework for Interfaith Peacebuilding

This episode explores a desire-based framework for interfaith peacebuilding, drawing heavily on the work of Eve Tuck to challenge traditional "damage-centered" approaches. It argues that focusing solely on trauma and brokenness can inadvertently reduce religious communities to one-dimensional victims and perpetuate cycles of competitive victimhood. By shifting the focus toward complex personhood and the generative longings of faith traditions, we suggest that dialogue can move beyond merely documenting harm. This reorientation encourages a moral imagination where religious groups are recognised as agents of wisdom and renewal rather than just survivors of conflict. Ultimately, we advocate for a sovereign act of imagination that refuses to let past violence define the future of interreligious relationships.