‘Peacemaker’ in the Reno Gazette
The Reno Gazette-Journal has a great little piece about ‘peacemaker’ Trip Barthel, founder and executive director of the Neighborhood Mediation Center in Reno:
Unity of mankind is the fundamental tenet of the Bahai Faith, which Barthel said “plays a unique role in conflict resolution.”
“I think the future in conflict resolution is moving toward a Bahai type of model,” he said. “The Bahais say there are certain spiritual principles, which some call human values, by which solutions can be found for every social problem.”
Those principles are unity in diversity, equity and justice, equality of the sexes, trustworthiness and moral leadership, and independent investigation of truth.