Comparative religious study of"peace and violence"in modern Islam

为开展现代伊斯兰主义“和平与暴力”的多角度研究，我们由中东研究、伊斯兰神秘主义、伊斯兰政治思想、伊朗问题等多方学者组成，我们不将现代伊斯兰主义（伊斯兰复兴主义）仅仅视为宗教运动、国际政治或中东危机的框架，而是将“和平与暴力”作为一个紧迫课题，从多个角度研究现代伊斯兰。我们的研究成果涵盖了宗教研究、亚洲和平与共存等一系列主题，每一项研究都以宗教中的“和平与暴力”为主题，形成了一种新的学术观点。在伊斯兰世界，有使用武力的激进武装组织和呼吁和平的温和组织。这些团体之间的冲突似乎并没有在这个地区的政治和经济动荡中停止。由于他们都有宗教理想和政治借口，事情变得更加混乱。我们的研究不仅促进了与温和团体的对话，而且试图通过分析激进团体的思想基础和政治背景来寻找动乱的主要因素。我们还将中东、亚洲、美国和欧洲的伊斯兰世界研究与全球意识形态趋势或日本传统思想进行了比较。从这个意义上说，我们成功地将这些独特而有价值的研究成果吸引到了公众。这些成果也能够促进我国的外交政策或文明之间的对话。

To carry out the research of "peace and violence" in modern Islamism with multiple viewpoint, we consisted of various scholars such as Middle Eastern studies, Islamic mysticism, Islamic political thought, Iran issues, etc, We do not consider modern Islamism (Islamic revivalism) as just a frame work of religious movement, international politics or Middle East crisis but we worked on "peace and violence" as an urgent subject to study modern Islam from many different angles. Products of our research cover a range of topics including religious studies, peace and coexistence of Asia, etc, and since each study came down to the subject of "peace and violence" in religion, it formed a new academic point of view.In Islamic world, there are radical militant groups which use force and moderate groups which call for peace. The conflicts between these groups don't seem to cease in political and economical turmoil of this area. Since they both have a religious ideals and political pretexts, things have gotten more confused. Our research not only promoted dialogues with moderate groups, but also tried to search for primary factors of the turmoil by analyzing the ideological base and political background of radical groups. We also compared research of Islamic world of Middle East, Asia, the United States and Europe with global tendency of ideologies or Japanese traditional thoughts. In that sense, we succeeded in appealing such unique and valuable research results to the public. These results are also able to contribute to promote our country's diplomatic policy or dialogues among civilizations.