The Vicar of Baghdad: Fighting for Peace in the Middle East - Softcover

White, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0825462843 ISBN 13: 9780825462849

Publisher: Monarch Books, 2009

Synopsis

As the vicar of St. George's Church in Baghdad, the only Episcopalian church in Iraq, Canon Andrew White has worked with those at the highest levels of authority in Iraq, for both Westerners and Iraqis. Now, as political and military solutions continue to fail, Andrew offers a different approach to making peace in the Middle East-speaking as a man of faith to men of faith. In The Vicar of Baghdad he tells the story of his work to create peace through God.

About this title

About the Author:

Canon Andrew White, the vicar of St George's Church in Baghdad, has extensive experience of conflict mediation in Iraq and the wider Middle East. President and CEO of the Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East, launched in 2005, he has written extensively about conflict resolution and has been involved in many hostage negotiations. He is author of The Vicar of Baghdad.

From Publishers Weekly:

As head of a foundation for relief and peacemaking and vicar of an Anglican church in Baghdad, White has gained the ear of major power brokers, negotiated hostage releases and coordinated interreligious dialogue in the Middle East. Yet his memoir does not fit neatly into the canon of peacemaking literature, in part because he sees no problem with aligning closely with the U.S. military and accepting Pentagon funds for his interfaith peace summits. Peacemaking of the old woolly-liberal kind no longer works, if it ever did, he writes, and criticizes bottom-up approaches to reconciliation as ineffective in the Middle East. White's most controversial claim—that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction—goes unsupported, and some will find his support for the U.S. invasion ironic, inasmuch as it exists alongside interreligious statements that he helped to broker proclaiming a total rejection of all violence. White's stories of finding common ground between enemies and his commitment to finding out how religion can advise, rather than supervise, politics are truly admirable, however, and not lost entirely amid the book's other, more self-serving assertions. (May)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Monarch Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0825462843
• ISBN 13: 9780825462849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192