No other way to peace in Korea?

No other way to peace in Korea

Michael Schluter (author)

Format: Hardback Published: 2022

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Synopsis

Just before his seventieth birthday, Michael Schluter felt an irresistible inner conviction that he should devote the next stage of his life to reconciliation and peace in the Korean Peninsula.

Having been involved with setting up many organizations, he knew that the task of “organizing” anything in relation to this was going to be the biggest challenge of his life.

The experience of his previous peace initiatives (South Africa, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Ukraine) told him, of course, nothing about East Asia – and none had been as challenging and complex as the tasks to which he was committing himself to now. The USA, China, Japan, and Russia all have a direct interest.

What he did have going for him was 40 years focused on bridging the ideological gap between capitalism and socialism.

Now he has discussed every imaginable aspect of the situation in Korea with politicians, diplomats, and experts from 14 different fields.

His interlocutors have hailed from North Korea and South Korea, from the USA, China, Russia, Japan, Mongolia, Germany, Switzerland, and the UK.

And this is the plan.  Thorough, detailed, realistic, and achievable.

“Alan Barrell is a founding partner and chairman of Cambridge Learning Gateway as well as Relational Peacebuilding Initiatives. He works in student and academic education in China and on UK-China technology transfer, and is a guest professor at Liaoning University, Shenyang; and Michael Schluter is the president and CEO of Relational Peacebuilding Initiatives and author of the book No Other Way to Peace in Korea? A Mutual and Practical Pathway to Reunification, to be published at the end of this year.”

Michael Schluter draws on experience and perspective gleaned in other deeply fractured contexts to helpfully analyze one of the most complex and painfully vexing challenges of our time – reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula.  In his thoughtful exploration of the different systems, sectors and worldviews of North and South Korea, he offers mutual pathways to rebuild trust and relationships from the grassroots, while acknowledging that real hope for lasting transformation and healing – individually or nationally – depends on forgiveness and reconciliation.” – Heidi Linton, Executive Director, Christian Friends of Korea