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The view from my Belfast bus: tribalism as the enemy of prosperity

19 November 2015

3:00 PM

19 November 2015

3:00 PM

At Stormont on Saturday, we observed a minute’s silence for the dead of Paris. Our conference group of Brits and Americans had convened two days earlier to discuss conflict resolution, the idea that nationalism and tribalism are the enemies of peace and prosperity, and how all this might relate to the migration crisis; so the moment could not have been more poignant.

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