Reforming Pakistan's Madrassas with Faith-Based Diplomacy

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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).

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: February 15, 2008 at 6:48 pm
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Length: 00:05:01
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zabrakk (April 5, 2008 at 5:20 am)
if you do not reform Saudi and Pakistani Army then no use,coz they are promoting the Jihad idealogy in madrassas and all muslims.
stalone17 (February 15, 2008 at 11:53 pm)
Islam is all about peace. I dont know who gave you this intolerable definition of this beautiful religion. Remember my friend, always respect every religion and thats what islam says too..if you are talking about another religion with such harsh words, it tells me that you have little knowledge about your religion in the first place. Peace brother.
rotocon (February 24, 2008 at 9:28 am)
there are as many islams as there are people
zabrakk (April 5, 2008 at 5:17 am)
ha ha then what is peace?kill or be killed
AmericaOwnz (February 15, 2008 at 10:14 pm)
This guy's an idiot-Islam from its beginning was a mafia and a barbaric totalitarian death cult. The first university was opened in India. The Quran is not a "sophisticated" work, but rather the bastardization of christianity, judaism and sabean paganism.

The Quran is a manual of war, hatred, intolerance and genocide against non-muslims. The reason the muslim world is backwards is because of Islam. Everything muslims claim they invented was stolen from advanced nations they brutally conquered.
polka23dot (February 15, 2008 at 11:43 pm)
You understand Islam very well. The essence of Islam is the concept of 'al-fikr kufr'. It means that the very act of thinking (fikr) makes one an infidel (kufr).

Islam broke world records of genocide (270 million victims), slavery, religiously sanctioned rape, abuse of human rights, and prohibition of scientific inquiry.
AmericaOwnz (February 19, 2008 at 8:12 pm)
polka23dot-Thanks, likewise.

stalone17-clearly you know nothing about Islam and please spare me your meaningless platitudes. People who follow death cults that murder and terrorize people on a massive scale as Islam does, are no brothers of mine.