Resilience, Peacebuilding, and Preventing Violent Extremism: A Complex Systems Perspective on Sustaining Peace
Resilience, Peacebuilding, and Preventing Violent Extremism: A Complex Systems Perspective on Sustaining Peace
Abdurrohim M. Ahim Sulthan Nuruddaroini Moh. Abdullah Ely Fitriani Nilna Fadlillah Farhad Muhammad a Al-Qolam University, Malang, Indonesiab Amuntai College of Qur’anic Studies, Indonesiac Miftahul Ulum Islamic Institute, Pamekasan, Indonesiad Sorong State Islamic Institute, Indonesiae Qomaruddin University, Gresik, Indonesiaf Darul ‘Ulum University, Jombang, IndonesiaAbdurrohim is a lecturer and Dean of the Faculty of Tarbiyah (Islamic Education) at Al-Qolam University, Malang, Indonesia. His scholarly interests encompass Islamic religious education, pesantren studies, and educational technology. His research engages with pressing challenges in Islamic boarding school environments, with a particular focus on student welfare, anti-bullying education, and the development of protective pedagogical models within pesantren settings. He has examined these issues through comparative and systematic approaches, including cross-national studies involving Indonesian and Malaysian Islamic boarding schools. His work also extends to the intersection of science and religion in Islamic education, as reflected in his study on teachers’ pedagogical practices in integrating scientific and religious knowledge in Indonesian Islamic senior high schools, published in Science & Education. He has further contributed to AL-ISHLAH: Jurnal Pendidikan and collaborated actively with scholars across Indonesian Islamic higher education institutions. Beyond his research role, he is involved in forging institutional partnerships aimed at enriching teaching methodologies within Islamic education.M. Ahim Sulthan Nuruddaroini is a lecturer in Islamic Religious Education at the Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Al-Qur’an (STIQ) Amuntai, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. His scholarly interests span Qur’anic studies, Islamic religious education, Arabic language pedagogy, and the study of religious practice in digital and community contexts. His research examines questions at the intersection of Qur’anic memorization (tahfidz), student attitudes and cognition, and the role of Arabic language learning in shaping the experiences of Qur’an memorizers. He has also explored the dynamics of community-based Qur’anic programs and the influence of religious awareness on virtual Islamic da’wah content. He has published in Jurnal Basicedu, SYAMIL: Journal of Islamic Education, Fikri: Jurnal Kajian Agama, Sosial dan Budaya, and Al-Muhith: Jurnal Ilmu Qur’an dan Hadits, and has collaborated widely with scholars across Indonesian Islamic higher education institutions.Moh. Abdullah is a lecturer in Islamic Education at the Institut Agama Islam Miftahul Ulum (IAIMU) Pamekasan, Madura. His scholarly interests span Islamic religious education, pesantren pedagogy, environmental education, and curriculum studies. His research examines the intersection of classical Islamic educational thought and contemporary pedagogical challenges, with particular attention to character formation in pesantren settings, religious moderation in digital contexts, and the integration of Islamic ethics into modern curricula. He has published in British Journal of Religious Education and collaborated widely with scholars across Indonesian Islamic higher education institutions.Ely Fitriani is a lecturer in Islamic Education at Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Sorong, Indonesia. Her research focuses on Islamic religious education, multicultural education, interfaith tolerance, and the pedagogical challenges of inclusive and early childhood Islamic education. She has published on anti-bullying strategies in Islamic boarding schools, the evaluation of Islamic religious education for tolerance, multiculturalism in PAI curricula, and the role of religious moderation in digital and post-truth contexts. Her work appears in nationally and internationally indexed journals, and she actively collaborates with scholars across Indonesian Islamic higher education institutions on issues of religious character formation and educational innovation.Nilna Fadlillah is a lecturer in Qur’anic Studies and Hadith (Studi al-Qur’an dan Hadis) at Universitas Qomaruddin, Gresik, Indonesia. Her scholarly work bridges classical Qur’anic and hadith scholarship with contemporary educational and pedagogical concerns. She has published on constructivist approaches to religious moderation, authentic and diagnostic assessment in Islamic education, the pedagogy of Qur’anic learning, and bibliometric trends in Qur’anic learning research. Her work appears in Scopus-indexed journals and she collaborates with researchers from multiple Indonesian Islamic universities on questions of curriculum, assessment, and the integration of classical Islamic learning traditions into modern educational frameworks.Farhad Muhammad is a lecturer in Islamic Religious Education at Universitas Darul Ulum (UNDAR), Jombang, East Java, Indonesia. His scholarly interests span Islamic religious education, Sufism and spirituality in higher education, and the integration of pesantren values into modern academic curricula. His research examines the place of Sufi traditions within contemporary Islamic educational practice, with particular attention to how universities rooted in pesantren culture navigate the tension between spiritual formation and competitive academic demands. His work has explored how institutions like UNDAR embed Sufi ethics into their curriculum through distinctive pedagogical models that draw on the intertwined heritage of boarding school education, Sufi order, and university life. He has published in Nazhruna: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam and has collaborated with scholars across Islamic higher education institutions in East Java, Indonesia.