Vermont Public Radio: Scholar says U.S. must help other countries join world community
(Host) A Christian theologian who immigrated to the United States from Croatia in the early 1990's brings his perspective on regional conflicts to St. Michael's College tonight.
Miroslav Volf now teaches at Yale Divinity School and will speak about "Identity and Otherness in a Fractured World." …
…(Volf) "I think non-violent protest can still work in the world. I was surprised-a person who was very opposed from the beginning to the War in Iraq-how little of protest there was in the US, how little students protested on college campuses. Sure, we had protests in Europe, that's one thing, because the US was the prime mover of the invasion. I think if we had a very robust protest, I think we might have achieved something."
(Host) Volf says for the war on terror to be successful, governments must seek not just obliteration of the enemies of western democracy, but a strategy for helping them join the world community. …
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