{"id":10885,"date":"2016-02-04T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2016-02-05T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:52:50","slug":"the-role-of-faith-and-faith-based-groups-in-promoting-and-building-peace-united-nations-february-4-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-role-of-faith-and-faith-based-groups-in-promoting-and-building-peace-united-nations-february-4-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Faith and Faith-Based Groups in Promoting and Building Peace, United Nations, February 4, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\n\u201cThe Role of Faith and Faith-Based Organizations in Promoting and Building Peace, Resolving Conflict, and Preventing Radicalism and Extreme Violence\u201d<br \/>\nEvent entitled \u201cFocus on Faith: Promoting Peace and Reconciliation to Counter Violent Extremism\u201d<br \/>\nSponsored by the NGO Relations and Advocacy Section of the UN Department of Public Information<br \/>\nConference Room 1, UN Headquarters, NY<br \/>\nFebruary 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p><em>The following intervention was given on a panel on Promoting Peace and Reconciliation to Counter Violent Extremism sponsored by the UN Department of Public Information. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To watch a video of the presentation, please click the link below (My intervention takes place between 3:33 and 13:20).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid1722935254001\/?bctid=4739282548001&#038;autoStart=false&#038;secureConnections=true&#038;width=480&#038;height=270\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To read the program and documents of the conference, please click below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Programme-4-Feb-2016.pdf\" rel=\"\">Programme-4 Feb 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Focus-on-Faith-Invite-4-Feb.pdf\" rel=\"\">Focus on Faith Invite 4 Feb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the copy of the text prepared for the conference, which was at some points summarized for the sake of time.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates and Panelists, Ladies and Gentlemen,<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN, I would like to thank the NGO Relations and Advocacy Section of the UN Department of Public Information for sponsoring this briefing on Promoting Peace and Reconciliation to Counter Violent Extremism.<\/p>\n<p>I have been asked to address the role of faith and faith-based organizations in promoting and building peace, resolving conflict, preventing radicalism and extreme violence. It\u2019s a lot to cover in seven minutes and if it were possible to crystallize the most important things to know in that short span of time, implementation of those thoughts would likely be so straightforward that we probably no longer need this panel!<\/p>\n<p>Please, however, allow me to just sketch some of fundamental ideas. Before I do that, however, I would like to address two common objections.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that the role of faith and faith-based organizations in promoting and building peace, resolving conflict and preventing extreme violence should be as bland a topic as the role of education in helping people get smarter. But we know it\u2019s somewhat controversial because there are some who wonder whether religion is really a force for peace or for violence, who question whether religious faith inspires people toward good rather than evil, toward charity rather than carnage. They\u2019ll cite the battles between Christians and Muslims during the Crusades, at Lepanto, Vienna and elsewhere, the century long conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Wars of Religion, and the human sacrifices of the Aztecs and worshippers of Moloch as supposedly incontestable evidence that religious faith produces sadism rather than Good Samaritans. They\u2019ll point to the Inquisition and ISIS as the poisonous fruit produced by the tree of faith. And they\u2019ll refer to passages in religious scriptures that imply that God capriciously solicits, condones and celebrates the killing of the innocent along with the guilty as proof that that noxious fruit doesn\u2019t fall far from what they deem the false and fictitious divine tree maker.<\/p>\n<p>But this analysis needs to be challenged with the honest questions: Is the violence carried out by some in the name of a religion necessarily caused by that religion or only occasionally correlated with it? Were so-called religious wars based on genuinely religious principles, or has religion been used as a veneer by participants and historians both to mask what were at root political, economic, or ethnic motivations? Are the Scriptural citations properly interpreted by combatants and critics as part of a consistent message of barbarity and belligerence or are they, on the other hand, inconsistent misperceptions taken out of the context of a message that is overwhelming one of peace, charity, fraternity and personal sacrifice?<\/p>\n<p>One of the principles of basic fairness is that we judge any religion not by those who don\u2019t live according to its teachings but by those who do. Is a believer who thinks that the commandment \u201cThou shalt not kill\u201d means a green light to do exactly the opposite an observant and obedient one? We must also note that those with no religion are not impervious to committing extreme violence either. Historians tell us that the twentieth century was quantitatively by far the most violent century in the history of humanity, with more people executed in that hundred year period than in all previous centuries combined. We know that that abhorrent bloodbath was not unleashed in the name of religion, but under the banner of various secularist, anti-religious, or explicitly atheistic regimes like we\u2019ve seen under Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot and others. If the perversion of religion has occasionally led to violence, the prevention and persecution of religion has empirically been worse. While religion has not been successful in restraining every believer\u2019s propensity for violence, the absence of religion \u2014 living practically as if God doesn\u2019t exist \u2014 has been much less successful. And then we also have the cases of war and violence that have come from greed, power, family honor and many other false justifications that had little or nothing to do with combatants\u2019 religion.<\/p>\n<p>The second preliminary point or objection would be about why would many think this way about religion\u2019s not being overall a force for good but for evil. It\u2019s because if what they know about religion comes second hand, that second-hand knowledge is, frankly, disproportionately and misleadingly negative. In general, as the old journalistic aphorism attests, \u201cIf it bleeds, it leads.\u201d Big storms get the headlines, not tranquil sunny days. Shakespeare wrote in <em>Julius Caesar<\/em>, \u201cThe evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred within their bones,\u201d but that mainly one-sided story happens likewise in life. For seven years I ran a large Catholic newspaper and I was often tempted to have a huge above-the-fold front page article saying, \u201c200 million people to assemble in Church this Sunday,\u201d but such a story happens so frequently we take it for granted. The immense good done is not \u201cnew\u201d and so often never makes the \u201cnews.\u201d Sometimes five protestors outside a house of worship will get copy but 5,000 inside won\u2019t. One fulminating cleric spewing hate violence will become regular footage whereas 10,000 rabbis, imams, priests and ministers preaching peace, justice and forgiveness won\u2019t get any notice. With regard to faith and peace-building, the immense good being done by people and organizations motivated by faith seldom gets the attention it deserves. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so promising to have an event like today\u2019s, not only to address the distortion of disproportion but to tell the good news.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s get to the good news. What do faith and faith-based groups do to promote peace, resolve conflict, prevent radicalism and counter extreme violence? Permit me please to list a baker\u2019s dozen of activities with minimal development. Faith and faith-based groups:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preach and practice forgiveness and reconciliation, which when faithfully followed ends the downward spiral of vengeful retaliation.<\/li>\n<li>Inculcate a respect for the dignity of every person as loved by God, not matter how small, handicapped, vulnerable, no matter the sex, race or nationality. The strength of religions and faith-based organizations does not lie in economic or political power, material resources or scientific expertise, but in their being a spiritual force and a moral compass, helping individuals and societies recognize and respect the inherent dignity of each and every human person.<\/li>\n<li>Foster a culture of encounter, solidarity, and brotherhood that help people to transcend selfishness, lest brothers and sisters recapitulate the story of Cain and Abel. At the United Nations last September Pope Francis stated that one of the root causes of so many difficulties in today\u2019s world is a \u201cgrowing and steady social fragmentation\u201d that is endangering the \u201cfoundations of social life\u201d and engendering \u201cbattles over conflicting interests.\u201d That diagnosis implicitly contains a prescription: the constant, persevering work to help people encounter each other not at a superficial level but at the depth of their humanity. It\u2019s to foster genuine solidarity. It\u2019s to help people to learn how to talk <em>with<\/em> each other, and then <em>to<\/em> each other, so that they might begin to <em>understand<\/em> each other, <em>appreciate<\/em> each other, and <em>support<\/em> each other. In Turkey in November 2014 Pope Francis declared, \u201cFanaticism and fundamentalism\u2026need to be countered by\u2026solidarity.\u201d Faith and faith-based organizations are crucial in that effort.<\/li>\n<li>Open and run schools that form the head and the heart, that gives people the ability critically to assess the claims and appeals of demagogues pushing for violence and war, and gives them the confidence to proclaim and live a different message.<\/li>\n<li>Teach people to use the \u201carms\u201d of prayer as a weapon to respond to suffering rather than resorting to violence.<\/li>\n<li>Train people to leave vengeance to the justice of God who will right wrongs, bring good of evil, and have the last word.<\/li>\n<li>Preach as a moral minimum the Silver Rule, \u201cDon\u2019t treat others as you would not want them to treat you,\u201d or the Golden Rule, \u201cTreat others as you would have them treat you.\u201d I call it a moral minimum common to most major religions, but some far surpass it. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, for example, all feature something more: they call us to love our neighbor because in faith we recognize God loves our neighbor. Christianity goes even beyond that, summoning us to love enemies, pray for persecutors, turn the other cheek, and love others as Christ has loved us, which doesn\u2019t mean \u201cshare his sentiments,\u201d but share his willingness to die for the good of others. When faithfully followed, this moral formation changes people profoundly.<\/li>\n<li>Categorically condemn evil. Part of this condemnation must extend to messages of hate in the name of religion.<\/li>\n<li>Get adherents to focus on their own sins and the roots of those sins \u2014 such as envy, greed, pride, anger \u2014 and seek mercy from God, which is something that can help root out the interior cancers that metastasize to violence. When one observes the schoolyard skirmishes of kindergarteners or the way infant siblings fight with each other over household toys to grasp the central point, one grasps that the tendency to violence temporally <em>precedes<\/em> rather than <em>follows <\/em>religious faith and practice. Faith curbs rather than catalyzes this propensity to violence. It\u2019s a medicine to remedy this tendency to violence rather than fire to inflame it.<\/li>\n<li>Promote integral development \u2014\u00a0personal, social, economic and environment \u2014 since social, economic and environmental injustices often provide a lot of fuel for outbursts of violence.<\/li>\n<li>Think through with great seriousness the ethical criteria for self-defense \u2014 typically called a \u201cjust war doctrine\u201d \u2014 as well as the \u201cresponsibility to protect,\u201d the duty to intervene to defend those who cannot defend themselves from atrocities. These ethical criteria not only limit the downward spiral of violence but also gets those in responsibility to act to ensure to defend the rights of victims and speed the process of peace.<\/li>\n<li>Engage in interreligious dialogue, showing the way toward a much greater understanding so that, first, others cannot manipulate religion to incite hatred and violence, and second, give a paradigm for all groups and peoples of the path toward reconciliation. Pope Francis affirms that \u201cinterreligious dialogue is a necessary condition for peace in the world\u201d and that such \u201ca dialogue that seeks social peace and justice is in itself, beyond all merely practical considerations, an ethical commitment that brings about a new social situation\u201d (<em>Evangelii Gaudium<\/em> 250).<\/li>\n<li>Explicitly and intentionally form peacemakers. So many of the greatest agents of peace in the world are motivated precisely by faith. We can look at the work, for example of the Quakers, the San Egidio Community, Pax Christi and so many others present in this room. Christians believe, according to the words of Jesus, that the true children of God are not peace-wishers but peacemakers (Mt 5:9), those who actively work toward communion and harmony.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But faith and faith-based groups to produce these fruits, two things are needed.<\/p>\n<p>First, the conception of God being worshipped must be peaceful. If one\u2019s notion of God is that of Ares or Mars, the ancient Greco-Roman god of war, it\u2019s obviously going to influence the way believers in that god approach the subject of war and peace. If there\u2019s a sense among adherents that God condones, wishes and even occasionally does violence against others, then it\u2019s logical and theological that believers in that God may conclude that doing violence against others may be doing God\u2019s will. We need to be honest about this and make sure we seek to educate people out of false conceptions of God.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, the conception of God must be rational. If the God in whom one believes is not capricious but consistent, then one can see readily that violence against innocents is incompatible with the nature of God and with the nature of the person created by that God. Sadly we witness what happens in the dark side of pseudo-religious passion divorced from reason, of zeal for one\u2019s belief at the expense of fundamental human rights. Last January Pope Francis met with the diplomatic representatives of the world and stressed this connection between the God we worship and the way we strive to live. \u201cSincere faith in God,\u201d he says, \u201cmakes one open to others, generates dialogue and works for the good, whereas violence is always the product of a falsification of religion, its use as a pretext for ideological schemes whose only goal is power over others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second, it\u2019s not enough just to have a right conception of God. Even if the God being worshipped is conceived as a loving God, a God who is a Father of all, a God who seeks peace, there\u2019s also the phenomenon of people not following that God, giving into the tendency toward violence rather than aligning one\u2019s will toward God. This points to the crucial importance of a proper education that includes adequate religious instruction, so that people will be trained in the school of the virtues that make for peace.<\/p>\n<p>The first place of this religious schooling is the home, but the future of peace in society is too important for nations not to supplement this education outside of the home. The secularist ideal of making schools \u201creligious free zones\u201d \u2014\u00a0as if religion is superstitious or an opiate of the people and we just have to \u201csay no to drugs\u201d \u2014\u00a0 does not truly advance the cause of peace. Depriving kids of this basic human formation, something that meets their need for transcendence and commitment, something that counteracts the human tendency toward violence, is negligent not only of their good but the good of society. It leaves the young disoriented, alienated, feeling unwanted, marginalized or excluded, and prone to the message of extremist groups, which is something we\u2019ve all been seeing in the recruitment strategies by ISIS. It should also go without saying that schools that actively form children in hatred, terrorism and violence under the guise of religion, though rare, are a real problem, one that only emphasizes the importance of an adequate formation in the virtues that lead to people of character who seek and strive for peace.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much for your kind attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-12.18.35-PM.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10901\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10901\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-12.18.35-PM.png?resize=300%2C211&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-05 at 12.18.35 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-12.18.35-PM.png?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-12.18.35-PM.png?resize=768%2C540&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-12.18.35-PM.png?resize=1024%2C720&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-05-at-12.18.35-PM.png?w=1742&amp;ssl=1 1742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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