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Jude Lal Fernando

Oct 1, 2026

9:30
Jude, maybe tell us about y- your own work then, and maybe to what extent, if we try to imagine a better future, do we have to understand the past and, uh, social injustices and various injustices that were done in the past?
9:47
Yes.
9:48
Um, most of my research is based on conflict zones.
9:54
Um, and the school itself has a vision and a mission towards that direction.
10:01
Um, one thing is clear, in the title of the school, which I represent in a way, we have the School of Religion, Theology, and there's a comma after Theology, and Peace Studies.
10:17
Which means that we don't necessarily consider building peace as a religious task, uh, as in the traditional sense of moralizing what is to be peaceful.
10:31
Uh, but on the other hand, we are also an interdisciplinary school, and my- most of my research is based on interdisciplinarity in the intersection of the role of religion in conflict and peace in a decolonial sense.

21 MINS LATER

32:13
So we may not have made that leap there to say, "Well, actually, it's also fundamental to these biggest of questions."

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