Churches and confessional traditions have often been engaged in conflicts motivated by either religious, national or political premises. Accordingly, many contemporary theologies can claim only limited success in their efforts to conciliate conflict, avoid violence, stop war, and promote peace worldwide. Living in a turbulent age, where violence and war seem to be proliferating, theology needs to dive deeply into the Bible, as well as the broader, early Christian tradition, offering a vision which will overcome just war, “holy” violence discourse, by promoting just peace and peacemaking. For this to happen, theology must address its own hermeneutical and historical shortcomings and understand itself and its effects better.The closed panel will address the topic of ‘just peace’ from different church traditions and aims to expose different confessional hermeneutics. As a starting point, theologians from different church traditions are invited to discuss ‘just peace’, giving a short presentation from their own confessional perspective. After the various impulses, there will be a panel discussion in which we would like to go to the meta-level in order to reflect on the different approaches to the topic and to identify confessional hermeneutics.Chairs: Nikolaos Asproulis (Volos Academy for Theological Studies) Roger Revell (University of Oxford)Speakers: Friederike Nüssel (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) Markus Iff (Theologische Hochschule Ewersbach)Herman Selderhuis (Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn)