Reforming Pakistan's Madrassas with Faith-Based Diplomacy

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/10/04/Douglas_Johnston_on_Faith-Based_Diplomacy

Author and diplomat Douglas Johnston describes a campaign to reform Pakistani madrassas using religion-based diplomacy.

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Douglas Johnston discusses Faith-based Diplomacy: Bridging the Religious Divide.

Douglas M. Johnston is President and Founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (ICRD). He led the 7-year study that produced the book, Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft, published in 1994 by Oxford University Press and now in its 13th printing and second foreign translation. ICRD aims to address identity-based conflicts that exceed the grasp of traditional diplomacy by incorporating religion as part of the solution. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He has served in senior positions in government, business, academia, and the military. He served as deputy assistant secretary of the navy (manpower); director of policy planning and management in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also served as Executive Vice President and COO of CSIS. His latest book is Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik (2003).

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[waqas110]

@TheBodygrow they should nuke racist people like you who have got nothing more to do except for criticizing with little knowledge

[TheBodygrow]

pakistan should be nuked ..

[beancube2008]

I think the Japanese is much better than Jewish if ritualization is belief. They really kill including themselves.

Right now wars and unemployment are being used to manufacturing consents. We must be coerced to save this world.

[lanloun13]

Please, you don't think there are extremists in every religion?

Turks are muslims- they have never been involved in terrorist action

Indonesians- what have they done to you?

You really think that a whole religion is after who exactly?

And just for your information, because i really doubt you would know this, there are 1000s if not millions of arab christians...look at Egypt and Lebanon for example

Don't talk about things you clearly know nothing about

[lanloun13]

killing christians, muslims, and jews and they took from Islamic traditions and expanded on them...nobody denies this.

Maybe you should read up on Baghdad and the Abbasids...I feel sorry for you, i really do.

[lanloun13]

You must not know a lot about history. First of all, all countries and cultures take from each other, you don't think the romans did it. The decline of Islam was due to the crusades. Are you familiar with the History channel?

They will tell you that muslims actually allowed people to believe what they wanted. During the crusades, policy on religion was stricter, but was still pretty open. After the barbaric franks and others came to the middle east,

[lanloun13]

You are obviously ignorant. Unless you read arabic or have taken the time to read the Quran in English please don't comment. The Quran is poetic.

As an American, who has lived outside of the US, all I can say is that the reason there is violence in the world is because of people like you. Darn, if anyone's barbaric it is someone who is cruel enough to speak about a religion like you do. Have you no shame? You must not know a lot about history.

[zabrakk]

if you do not reform Saudi and Pakistani Army then no use,coz they are promoting the Jihad idealogy in madrassas and all muslims.

[zabrakk]

ha ha then what is peace?kill or be killed

[rotocon]

there are as many islams as there are people