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Greg Boyle — The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Peace Making Requires Conflict

When you first arrived in Ireland, one of the ways you tried to serve was as a peacemaker. You were going to make truce between these warring gangs. But that which maybe seemed obvious, wasn't right. Peace making requires conflict and while there's lots of violence between gangs, there's not conflict that you can define like you can with a war. It's about a lethal absence of hope for kids who aren't seeking anything when they join a gang.

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