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Contested Discourses on Violence, Social Justice, and Peacebuilding Among Indonesian Muslims

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Diane Bretherton for her valuable guidance and comments on an earlier version of this article which was a part of a Ph.D. dissertation she supervised at the Psychology Department, University of Melbourne, Australia. I am also grateful to Djamaludin Ancok and Komaruddin Hidayat, who gave feedback on the later version.

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Khisbiyah, Y. (2009). Contested Discourses on Violence, Social Justice, and Peacebuilding Among Indonesian Muslims. In: Noor, N., Montiel, C. (eds) Peace Psychology in Asia. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0143-9_7

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