The True Love Way: Peace Education for the 21st Century

TRC-Liberia Q&A Session with Amb Rev Gerald B. Coleman: Originally Published July 26, 2006 1.Question from the Press: We have heard you speak a lot about the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, yet Liberians have diverse views relating to this commission and its merit of ensuring justice in the absence of a Special Court. What can you say is the essence and sole intent or value of the Liberian TRC beyond these diverse views? 2.Amb Coleman’s response: {What I am about to share is mine personal opinion and in no way should be understood as representing the opinion of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of which I am also a part. I gave this response in a personal interview during my service on the Interim TRC in June 2005} I believe the essence and sole intent of this and most Truth & Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) is to protect their nations against the repetition of its painful and heinous past injustice. This protection is best provided by ens...

"We must bear in mind that what the Unification Church is today revealing – that human beings have a portion of responsibility – is a discovery of universal proportions. The invention of the atomic bomb or Einstein’s Theory of Relativity cannot be compared with this discovery. That is because, unless we know this reality, then nothing in history can be resolved. The fact that all of you have come to know this truth is a tremendous thing. Yet, we have had an aversion to our portion of responsibility. We should like it more than anything else, but we actually dislike it the most. (124-303, 1983.3.1)" Rev Dr. Sun Myung Moon The importance of human responsibility lies in its ability to bestow upon human beings divine ownership. God is the true and only owner of everything; however, He cannot claim ownership over anything without possessing a substantial visible form. Only those who have substantial forms can claim ownership in this substantial physical world. At the beginning o...