Religious Reconciliation in South Asia | April 22, 2005

Dr. Robert S. Kittel, Director of Peace Education - IIFWP
Goa, India

At a Hindu ashram just outside Goa, India, interreligious harmony is thriving. In this small resort town, famous for beautiful beaches and mouth-watering cashews, the eleventh annual “All Religions Seminar for World Peace” was convened on March 20, 2005. Despite the historical religious rigidity and loathing that forced the British Raj to be divided between Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan at the end of WWII and the current tensions over the divided state of Jumma and Kashmir, this conference sought to reconcile these differences by seeking common ground and mutual understanding.

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