We need to be skilled at creating Peace.
We live in a deeply conflicted world. There are more than 200 current ethnic conflicts today in countries around the world — settings where people are damaging each other and killing one another in purely intergroup conflicts.
In our own country, we are not killing each other in groups, but we have deep and long-standing levels of intergroup anger and division — and we are seeing that anger manifest itself in a number of settings when flashpoints in those settings unleash and uncover layers of underlying intergroup anger, resentment, and distrust.
We have had protests, demonstrations, and even riots in some settings that tell us clearly that there are intergroup angers and intergroup stress points in those settings.
We need to be very good at The Art of InterGroup Peace.
We are not a nation at Peace with itself. We have done well on a range of intergroup issues in a significant number of areas of our society, but we have other areas where w
