title: Meeting the other
abstract: This chapter presents more than five years of active fieldwork focusing on restorative practices and peacebuilding initiatives in Ukraine during the active phase of armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine. Field data consists of accounts by religious actors from different denominations who have joined interconfessional groups to talk about difficult topics, dilemmas, and possible cooperation on the ground. Their accounts provide a sense of lived religion and reveal intra-and inter-religio