Word for the Week

"Walls and peace": the real story of international reconciliation

Week beginning: 29th May, 2016 | By Timothy Laurence | London

"For he himself is our peace, who has made [Jew and Gentile] both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace..."

Ephesians 2:14-15 (ESV)

"Walls and peace": the real story of international reconciliation

Physical walls and fences recur in international politics - building them against migrants, or bringing them down for unification. Legal systems and treaties too can either unify peop