Conflict and resistance ethics: Towards a critical understanding of jihad and just War

The Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) in the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a member of Qatar Foundation, held its 5th Annual International Conference on "Conflict and Resistance Ethics: Towards a critical understanding of Jihad and Just War" at the Education City in Doha, Qatar from 18-19 March 2017.Two prominent speakers, Bishop Miguel Angel Ayoso Guixot, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue in the Vatican, and Dr. Tariq Ramadan, Director of CILE and Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford, provided the keynote speech giving overall direction of the conference. Bishop Miguel pointed out that both Christians and Muslims are struggling to tackle the misunderstanding and misperception of the true meaning of peace and the manipulation of terms and principles, like "jihad and just war", to justify violence and terror in the name of religion.