How to Build Peace

List of Images • 15

List of Tables • 17

Notes on Translations and Transliteration • 19

Acknowledgments • 21
General Acknowledgements • 21
Funding • 23
Abbreviations • 25
Foreword • 27

Part I: Historical Background & Qualitative Research • 33

Chapter 1: Historical Background and Meta-Narratives • 33
The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict • 34
The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict: Political Discourse • 39
Polish-Ukrainian Cooperation • 43
The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict in Academic Discourse: Meta-Narratives • 45
The Genocide Narrative • 48
The Anti-OUN Narrative • 52
The Nationalist Narrative • 57
The Pro-OUN Narrative • 59
Summary • 63

Chapter 2: Methodology • 65
Peace, Violence, and Conflict • 65
A Conceptualization of Peacebuilding • 67
Peacemaking versus Peacebuilding • 68
Liberal, Local, Hybrid, and Strategie Peacebuilding • 69
A Requiem of international Peacebuilding? • 71
Religious Peacebuilding • 71
Rationale • 76
Method • 77
Data Collection • 85
Discussion of Data • 94
Summary • 97

Chapter 3: Peacebuilding in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church-Qualitative Study • 99
Polish-Ukrainian Conflict • 100
Responsibility for and Causes of the Polish- Ukrainian Conflict • 100
Role of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Polish-Ukrainian Conflict • 106
Complexity of the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict • 110
Current Polish-Ukrainian Conflict • 111
Peacebuilding • 116
Religious Peacebuilding • 116
Examples of Peacebuilding • 120
Peacebuilders • 125
Characteristics of Peacebuilders • 125
Examples of Peacebuilders • 127
Peacebuilding Roadmap • 131
A. General Recommendations • 132
B. Recommendations for Ukrainian Greek Catholic Faithful • 133
C. Recommendations for Ukrainian Greek Catholic Clergy • 135
D. Recommendations for Ukrainian Greek Catholic Leadership •138
Summary 141


Part II: Characteristics of Peacebuilders & Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi • 145

Chapter 4: Characteristics of Peacebuilders • 145
Characteristics of Peacebuilders • 146
Characteristics of Religious Peacebuilders • 146
Christian and Catholic Peacebuilding • 151
Lederach's Unique Characteristics of Catholic Peacebuilders • 154
Catholic Peacebuilder Characteristics • 159
Challenges for Religious Peacebuilders • 162
Summary •165

Chapter 5: Historical Peacebuilder in the Greek Catholic Church- Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi • 167
Relevant Literature: Metropolitan Andrei Sheptyts'kyi • 170
Background • 183
First Cluster: Societal Standing and Relationships • 185
Proximity to Society • 185
Moral Credibility • 190
Relational Capital • 203
Second Cluster: Religious Peacebuilding Activities • 204
Naming Violence • 204
Pointing towards Peace (Hermeneutic of Peace) • 210
Single-Identity Peacebuilding • 213
Complementary and Collaborative Inter-Religious Dialogue • 218
Third Cluster: Catholic Peacebuilding Efforts • 221
Catholic Ubiquitous Presence • 221
Catholic Symbols, Rituals, Liturgical Elements • 223
Role as Pastor and Prophet • 225
Summary • 234


Part III: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Peacebuilding • 237

Chapter 6: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Peacebuilders in the Polish- Ukrainian Conflict • 237
The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict: Current Reality • 237
Preventing Collective Violence • 240
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Representatives as Religious Peacebuilders • 243
Precedence of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Peacebuilding: Andrei Sheptyts'kyi • 243
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Peacebuilding in the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict • 245
Contemporary Position of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Society • 252
Challenges • 263
Summary • 265

Chapter 7: Recommendations for Ukrainian Greek Catholic Peacebuilding in the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict • 267
Preventative Role: Education and Training • 268
Highlight Historical (Ukrainian Greek Catholic) Peacebuilders • 269
Challenging the Meta-Narratives of the Conflict • 270
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Theology of Peacebuilding • 272
Transformative Role: Rituals, Symbolism, and Liturgy • 278
Transformative Role: "Stolen Churches" • 281
Transformative Role: Common Action • 282
Cooperation with Protestant Peacebuilders • 282
Remembrance Projects • 283
Diversity of Peacebuilders • 285
Concluding Remarks • 286

Afterword • 289

Appendix: Other Themes in Qualitative Research • 295
Specific Themes • 295
Definition of Peace • 295
Documents on Peace • 299
Definition ofViolence • 301
Definition of Peacebuilding • 307

Overarching Themes • 311
Spiritual Connotations of Peace and Violence • 311
Dignity • 314
Peace, Violence, and the Russo-Ukrainian War • 315
Peace, Violence, and Defence • 317
Pacifism • 318
Justice • 319

Bibliography • 321
Archival Material • 321
List of Consulted Works • 322