From Harvard-
On October 21, Canon Andrew White delivered a lecture titled “Pursuing Reconciliation in Iraq: The Art of Mediation Between Warring Religious Factions.” Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School, the lecture focused on the role that religion must play in the peacemaking process in the Middle East.
White is president of the Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East, and the Anglican Chaplain to Iraq and Rector of St. George's Church in Baghdad. The recipient of the Train Foundation's Civil Courage Prize, White has been involved in the release of more than 50 hostages in the Middle East.
“Although I’m supposedly a religious leader myself, I actually think religion is bad,” he said. “So much of what we’ve seen is religion going wrong, and causing hatred and damage and pain.”
Nonetheless, he said that religion must be a serious consideration if peace in the Middle East is to be an achievable goal, because he has never known of a country in that region where religion was not extraordinarily significant.
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