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The Clerics Forging Peace in the Sahel

Into Africa

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The Role of Religion in Peace Building

I would like to take this opportunity to dive deeper into your work. You are both religious peace builders and people that are working actively in inter religious dialogue. So what I'm hearing is the chief tendency as you've both reiterated is not a ceremonial position, but actually a position that wields a lot of local power. That's really interesting. It has become very significant in contemporary times because of the challenges the religions are facing. Some people are using religion as central fugue or scapegoats to commit atrocities in the world. And if religion is being abused to cause problems in the world, the right institution to respond should be a religious institution. We have found inter-legal dialogue as a mechanism

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