News of unrelenting violence in the Mideast may suggest that it’s utopian to expect peaceful resolution of abiding ethnic and religious hatreds, but some less visible efforts at cross-ethnic cooperation are getting results. Consider Northern Ireland, watered by many rivers–the Lagan, Bann,Ballinamallard, and Cam–but none so powerful as the river of religious hatred.Regularly overflowing its […]
Barbara Nelson
Barbara J. Nelson is the dean of the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. She and Linda Kaboolian co-direct the Finding Fairness Project, an international effort to bridge social differences.

