“if you could just get people to talk, he believed, the most bitter antagonists could discover common ground.”
― Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
This book is one of the best non-fiction books I’ve picked up. Highly recommend!
Memoir of a Writer 
Sounds like an interesting read!
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It was so in-depth and well-written!
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The lesson from Northern Ireland is that in order to progress towards peace, at some point one side has to stop retaliating, no matter what provocation occurs. That’s why I have no hope for a resolution of the Palestinian conflict any time soon
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Yes, but when one side stop retaliating…. it usually means that the other side is winning. What other choice is there other than to find a new course of action? If no one is pulling ahead there’s no real reason to stop fighting back.
That progress toward peace is good – but it’s not usually a middle ground, it leans (at least a little) toward the side that “won.”
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