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| Chairperson of International Advisory Group INCORE, (International Conflict Research): a joint project of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University Tokyo - combining research, education and comparative analysis on conflict and reconciliation, nationally and internationally. |
2005-2010 |
| Member Board of Directors: Healing Through Remembering: HTR is N.Ireland-based public body and limited company, addressing issues of dealing with the past in the context of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland: issues include Truth Recovery Processes; Network of Commemoration; Living Memorial Museum, Story-Telling. Methodologies include conferences, commissioning of research, and research collaboration.
also during this period, Chair of Healing through Remembering 'Commemoration' Working Group. See www.healingthroughremembering.org |
2005-present |
| Member of Editorial Board:
One in Christ
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since 2008 |
| Member of Editorial Board;
Studies |
1997-2002 |
| Theological Adviser to World Council of Churches, and 2005 to present, consultant on the WCC Decade to Overcome Violence on themes of churches and peacebuilding; theology of creation and the ethics of cimate change. |
1994- |
| Project title |
Partners in Transformation |
| Summary |
This project was under the joint auspices of Irish School of Ecumenics in Belfast and Mediation Northern Ireland dealing with the contribution of the Churches to reconciliation and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: Doug Baker and Geraldine Smyth were co-directors of Phase II of this project (Phase I 2001-2004). |
| Funding Agency |
Atlantic Philanthropies |
| Programme |
Reconciliation |
| Type of Project |
Action-research |
| Date from |
Oct. 2004 |
| Date to |
July 2005 |
| Person Months |
9 |
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| Project title |
Visioning Ecumenism for the 21st Century: Diversity, Dialogue and Reconciliation |
| Summary |
The centenary (2010) of the international Conference on World Mission, Edinburgh 1910 provided an opportunity for the ecumenical movement, in Ireland and globally, to re-evaluate its goals and to elucidate new vision and prospects.
This ground-breaking ISE research project provided a springboard for a major international conference in June 2010 – 'From World Mission to Interreligious Witness', to commemorate the centenary of what we know as modern ecumenism, by examining the role of ecumenism in global, Irish, and other national contexts, and identifying key areas in which ecumenism can contribute to ongoing global conversations on such issues as diversity, immigration, interreligious theology, dialogue and reconciliation. The project has stimulated research collaborations which are global in scope.
The research consists of theological work, mainly from a Christian perspective, which critically examines and seeks to develop theological models of identity in plural contexts, extrapolating from biblical covenant traditions of exclusiveness-inclusiveness, justice and right relationship, and hospitality. Researchers are developing a theological perspective that will test the boundaries of ecumenism beyond the intra-Christian to interreligious approaches, and by ecumenical engagement within the public sphere, including politics, religion and the arts. In its final phase, the research has proceeded from a comparative religious studies ethnographic examination of the churches and other faith communities (Islam, Judaism, Hinduism) on the island of Ireland (including web-based surveys of clergy and laypeople – culminating in an Audited Report and conferences in Belfast in Nov. 2009 and Dublin 2011. A series of Expert Thematic Seminars (2011) enables a further theologically focussed analysis on paradigmatic issues in ecumenics. Through print-based and web-based publications the research will equip churches and other faith communities with theological and empirical resources for articulating a new ecumenical vision for the 21st century. The Lead Investigator is Professor Linda Hogan; Associate Researchers include: Professor Gladys Ganiel, Professor Andrew Pierce, Professor Geraldine Smyth,
Professor David Tombs and Professor John D’Arcy May. Other staff and three Ph.D candidates are also engaged in correlative fields of research.
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| Funding Agency |
IRCHSS |
| Programme |
Government of Ireland, Theoolgy and Religion |
| Type of Project |
Theology and Religious Studies |
| Date from |
8th Dec. 2008 |
| Date to |
7th Dec. 2011 |
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| Project title |
Religion in Conflict and Reconciliation |
| Summary |
Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Coordinator: Erasmus-Socrates Programme Research Partnership with the Dept of Religions and Theology, University of Uppsala and the Dept of Theology, University of Muenster - including pilot and establishment 2007-8 of Univ. of Uppsala M.A. Programme Religion in Conflict and Reconciliation and the current development of a Reader in Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding |
| Funding Agency |
EU |
| Programme |
Erasmus (with Socrates component) |
| Type of Project |
Inter-Institutional |
| Date from |
2006 |
| Date to |
2008 |
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Smyth, Geraldine , ‘Deep Symbols and Mythic Imagination in the Hermeneutics of Creation Texts’, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations , 20, (3), 2009, p227 - 245
Notes: [Routledge-Taylor and Francis Journal, U.K.] |
| Challenge and Change:1995-1999 in, editor(s)Michael Hurley S.J. , The Irish School of Ecumenics (1970-2007): 'Like Wheat that Springs up Green', Dublin, Columba Press, 2008, pp159 - 192, [Geraldine Smyth] |
| Jerusalem, Athens, and Zurich: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Factors Inhibiting Receptive Ecumenism in, editor(s)Paul Murray , Catholic Learning: Explorations in Receptive Ecumenism, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp285 - 302, [Geraldine Smyth] |
| Respecting Boundaries and Bonds in, editor(s)David Tombs and Joseph Liechty , Explorations in Reconciliation, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp137 - 155, [Smyth G.] |
Andrew Pierce and Geraldine Smyth, The Critical Spirit: Theology at the Crossroads of Faith and Culture, Dublin, Columba Press, 2003, 247pp
Notes: [Festschrift for Gabriel Daly OSA ] |
• Geraldine Smyth OP, A Way of Transformation: a Theological Evaluation of the Conciliar Process of Mutual Commitment to Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation - World Council of Churches, 1983-1991, Bern, Peter Lang (1995), 379 pp, Paperback, Berne, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Paris, Vienna, Peter Lang, 1995, vi - 377pp
Notes: [Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity Series] |
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