​Before attending the second seminar I felt somehow ashamed. As a Dane I live in very comfortable and privileged circumstances, and the dilemmas and challenges we face in Denmark regarding Ethnic and Religious conflicts are – at least at first sight – not very dramatic or serious. Since the first seminar in Copenhagen in March 2013 a lot has happened in the Middle East, not least in Syria and Egypt, but also in Lebanon.

I will never forget the glittering eyes of the children we worked with in our local inter-religious understanding initiatives as they watched motivational videos and the enthusiasm in their voices as they started to discuss them. I learned a lot from these children and was extremely happy to be part of their experience with “the other”.

While the seminar in wonderful Broumana outside Beirut is done and over, but I wanted to share the concluding thoughts that I prepared after the Danish activities and our presentation of these.