In the News: CAR Interfaith Peacebuilding Efforts

Out of the Central African Republic comes reports of increasing human rights violations and recruitment of child soldiers for sectarian fighting between Muslim and Christian militias. Yet Nyeko Caesar Poblicks writes for Insight on Conflict, “While international media portrays the current conflict as a conflict between Muslims and Christians, the reality is more complex than that.” Poblicks provides a brief history and analysis of the conflict and then describes how Muslim and Christian leaders in Bangui, the nation’s capital, have been meeting to talk and pray for peace.