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Enduring cultural or political conflict, between neighbors who become trapped in cycles of resentment or outright violence, can have a corrosive effect on the consciousness and identity of the people involved. For those who come to understand themselves primarily as people opposed to a hostile, threatening other group of people, it becomes difficult to imagine any alternative to one or the other side being destroyed or expelled.

The Paul Wattson Lectures honor the memory of Servant of God Father Paul of Graymoor (1863–1940), founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement and pioneer for the cause of Christian unity.

Dr. Reginaldo Paranhos Braga Jr is Associate Professor of Religion and Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, where he has also served as Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs. A native of Recife, Brazil, and ordained in both the União de Igrejas Evangélicas Congregacionais do Brasil and the Presbyterian Church (USA), he brings more than two decades of experience at the intersection of pastoral ministry, theological education, and intercultural mission.