Violent and Unethical Non-Violent Abuse of Faith and Ethnoreligious Sentiments in Southeast Europe: Religious Peace-Building?

The article presents a theoretical and conceptual examination of religious violent unethical non-violent behaviors, ethnopolitical clerical synergism, peace-building capacity. I argue that the phenomenon religious/ethnic interchangeability adopted by national political behavior has adverse consequences on post-Yugoslav social reconciliation process; religions should be moral agency. multiethnic/multireligious socialist Yugoslav society been violently transformed into influential ethical cultures, producing antagonistic ethnonational societies sustaining pastoralism as potent identity manifestations capital. War-period visual violence emotions influenced policy within discourse "our vs. their sacred ethnic land," creating an unbearable ease fear motivating antagonism war crimes. post-war media rhetoric, antagonism, abuse faith adversely impact peaceful coexistence. Ethnic, religious, ideological, contextual factors are challenging to generate in post-conflict, divided Balkan societies. Fear others, religiously distinct, is category that's difficult determine prevent. Western-Balkan possess victimological mythical conventions, honoring ethnoreligious victories, defeats, agonies, maintaining hostility revenge discourse. Historically, were misused justify maintain non-violence, sociopolitical order, negative peace. ideologies superiority intertwine with intensely dominant perceptions, so belonging Serb, Croat, or Bosniak people equated Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Islam. This entanglement groundwork for despondency hostile peace climate. Current policies lead further away from conflict transformation, directing toward renewal monotheistic spirituality, cognition, violence. Political involvement affects "authentic" religion. We engage all-inclusive theological consensus approaches demonstrate agencies, retrieving revitalizing authentic morality criteria. Religious sentiments mobilize more rapidly than other identities.