Marshall Lewis

If we wish to increase peace in the world, we must reduce religious intolerance. Potentially , the way we learn about religion and conceive religion can be a strategy toward this goal. How might we design and continually improve learning about religion if our intention is specifically to reduce religious intolerance? This requires experimentation to determine demonstrably effective solutions. In this paper, I briefly unpack the challenge at hand, describe an approach toward collaborative experimentation, and outline a set of mutually-supporting hypotheses with which to design solutions. Religion is a technology-a set of socio-cultural tools for aligning attitudes, ideas, emotions and behaviours within a religious community. These tools include , for example, narratives, myths, rituals, institutions and various arts. To press the tool analogy, one can use a hammer to build a house and also to hit someone over the head. While religion may rarely be the proximate cause of violence, religion is often instrumentalised in support of violence and in many ways exacerbates violence. A 2013 Pew study identified 17 countries as having "very high" levels of religiously-involved conflict, including: abuse of religious minorities; violence and threats to compel adherence to religious norms; harassment of women over religious dress; mob violence; religion-related terrorism ; and sectarian violence. 1 If we wish to increase peace in the world, we must reduce the various expressions of religious intolerance.

This proposed research will focus on designing, implementing, and evaluating a conceptual framework for intelligent agents that supports processes of managing project-relevant knowledge inside a virtual team in designing a multimedia system over the Internet. 1.

If we wish to increase peace in the world, we must reduce religious intolerance. Potentially, the way we learn about religion and conceive religion can be a strategy toward this goal. How might we design and continually improve learning about religion if our intention is specifically to reduce religious intolerance? This requires experimentation to determine demonstrably effective solutions. In this paper, I briefly unpack the challenge at hand, describe an approach toward collaborative experimentation, and outline a set of mutually-supporting hypotheses with which to design solutions.

If we wish to increase peace in the world, we must reduce religious intolerance. Potentially , the way we learn about religion and conceive religion can be a strategy toward this goal. How might we design and continually improve learning about religion if our intention is specifically to reduce religious intolerance? This requires experimentation to determine demonstrably effective solutions. In this paper, I briefly unpack the challenge at hand, describe an approach toward collaborative experimentation, and outline a set of mutually-supporting hypotheses with which to design solutions. Religion is a technology-a set of socio-cultural tools for aligning attitudes, ideas, emotions and behaviours within a religious community. These tools include , for example, narratives, myths, rituals, institutions and various arts. To press the tool analogy, one can use a hammer to build a house and also to hit someone over the head. While religion may rarely be the proximate cause of violence, religion is often instrumentalised in support of violence and in many ways exacerbates violence. A 2013 Pew study identified 17 countries as having "very high" levels of religiously-involved conflict, including: abuse of religious minorities; violence and threats to compel adherence to religious norms; harassment of women over religious dress; mob violence; religion-related terrorism ; and sectarian violence. 1 If we wish to increase peace in the world, we must reduce the various expressions of religious intolerance.

As writers and designers for Information Systems and Services, Inc., we developed hypertext/hypermedia computer‐based training and online help for the General Estimates System (GES). This article describes how this hypermedia application accomplishes the ...

This proposed research will focus on designing, implementing, and evaluating a conceptual framework for intelligent agents that supports processes of managing projectrelevant knowledge inside a virtual team in designing a multimedia system over the ...

How might we design religious education to reduce religious conflict? After briefly summarising the problem and types of educational solutions, I propose strategies for non-confessional initiatives, including: increasing empathy for the religious other, decreasing exclusivism, reframing religion functionally, and critically and creatively engaging radically diverse worldviews. Such proposals require testing and continual improvement, so I also offer an approach toward collaborative design and evaluation. The premise behind my proposal is that religion is best conceived as a technology – a set of cultural tools for aligning attitudes, beliefs and behaviours. Religious education is therefore a form of technology education.

This thesis traces the design of a method – a ritual design method – for thinking through the design of activities and things. My research goal was to evolve and apply a design method informed by ritual scholarship and based on the analysis of empirical ethnographic data. This resulted in a new way of approaching the analysis and design of interventions and of seeing, thinking and writing which I call a ritual design strategy. I developed this method during my tenure at Air New Zealand, the national airline of New Zealand, where I was a member of the Workplace Relations team. Our team’s mission included sustaining an organisational strategy that intended to build a more collaborative culture, to embed collaborative problem solving across the organisation and to strengthen the working relationship between company
management and the labour unions that represented two-thirds of the approximately
twelve thousand employees. This organisational strategy was called High
Performance Engagement, or HPE. The mission required the design of interventions:
activities such as governance meetings, training sessions, collaborative problem solving workshops and informal conversations, and things such as texts, graphics, digital and audio-visual materials. I evolved my ritual design strategy through my engagement with each intervention opportunity and this yielded a method that is
generalisable for application across a wide range of circumstances and design-related
problems. Ritual design is not specifically for designing rituals; it is a novel method
that can be ritual-like itself, through which meaning is created and operationalised.