Ett problem för varje lösning

AbstractA Problem to Every SolutionThe Corrymeela Community, René Girard and the ambiguous pluralismThe main purpose of this study is to examine how Girard´s ideas of society, culture andreligion have become part of the reflexion in the praxis of Corrymeela Community through the work of Roel Kaptein and how this praxis can shed light over the work with dissonances of faith and values in education in RE, Social Studies and other subjects.In earlier publications I have studied how dissonances of faith and values can beunderstood in educational settings and in connection with issues of interreligious dialogue.The extensive discussion of how differences in culture, religion and value in a pluralisticsociety are to be analysed and treated in pedagogical reflexion seems to increasingly occupyactors in different parts of the educational system. It is obvious that these issues also arebrought into focus as an important field of research. My main interest in this paper is to study how a reconciliation group in the middle of the conflict in Northern Ireland has developed a view of conflict reason and conflict resolution under the influence of the French researcher René Girard and what aspects of this study that can improve the reflection over pluralism and dissonances of faith and values in everyday praxis in education.For a period of more than a decade I have been in contact with actors in the peace process inNorthern Ireland in connection to different educational projects. The attempts to analyse the different aspects of ?The Troubles? and the efforts to find ways out of conflicts and civil war are many and the literature on subjects related to these tragic history of social, cultural and religious conflicts is difficult to survey. An interesting and continuing reflexion on conflicts in relation to dissonances of faith and value has been carried out by the ecumenical group ?Corrymeela Community?. It has its main centre in Belfast and the members are mainly lay people in different professions. The community is dispersed but meet regularly in the centre of Belfast or in a centre in Ballycastle up at the northern coast.René Girard is a member of the French Academy. In his books that touch upon Anthropology,Literature Theory, Philosophy and Theology he defends a hypotheses about ? Things HiddenSince the Foundation of the World?, as the title reads of one of his books. The conflictsamong men must be understood in the light of a elaborated mimesis-theory, where the desireto acquire what the Other desires leads to rivalry and scapegoating. Cultures arise throughrules and rituals as a way of structuring social life and thereby avoid the otherwise inevitablecrises that lead to repeated scapegoating of individuals or groups. From analysing myths,literature of fiction and biblical texts he has developed the hypotheses to illuminate howconflicts are related to culture and religion.

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