Louise Diamond: “Peacebuilders do not collude with the mindset that dehumanizes and demonizes ‘the other’…”
Apr 4th, 2008 by Jill
“Peacebuilders do not collude with the mindset that dehumanizes and demonizes ‘the other,’ seeking instead to listen, to discuss, to learn, to feel compassion for, and to see themselves in the other, the other in themselves. They realize that violence only begets more violence, that polarization only splits us further apart, and that ‘either/or’ thinking eliminates creative possibilities, and so they seek alternatives to violence, refuse to be caught in the limiting web of ‘us versus them’ rhetoric…” — Louise Diamond, Peace is Not a Dirty Word
