Empowering Leaders to Bridge International Waters
Remarkably, the role religion potentially plays in processes of radicalization has received significantly more attention than the roles it might play in prevention practices and processes of deradicalization. Here, we zoom in on processes of deradicalization.
It is easy to be ‘overcome by evil’ but when we focus our gaze there, we lose the high calling of ‘being the alternative’ to and ‘accepting our gladness’ in a hostile world.
The endless chaos of violence wreaking havoc on earth cannot be reversed by more violence, for it is a “weapon in the arsenal of death” and “metaphysically incapable” of producing peace.
Just peacemaking is a daunting challenge but a moral imperative, especially for those who claim Jesus as their Lord and guide.