How do wars end and how do enemies become friends? The friend-enemy polarization on the international level is threatening a whole phase of our age and is plaguing the public spheres on the national level. The reality of conflicts in the world and the violence of political competition contrast with the aspirations for peace that characterize all great cultural and religious traditions. Through its lectures, workshops, the Seminars will seek to understand this contrast in depth by addressing the desire for world harmony of Confucianism and the Middle Empire; the Islamic perspective; the concepts of peace and tolerance in the founding texts; the Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian perspectives from the Crusades to pacifism.

This conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland. Full details are available here.