In his Presidential address to the General Synod of the Church of England on 12 February, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby spoke of the "tough realities" and "unspeakable atrocities" currently faced by the churches in South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he had recently visited.
The Archbishop noted that such societies, in which conflict is rampant, are inevitably dominated by fear and suspicion, which are themselves grounded in a "zero sum" mentality - that is, the wrong-headed cognitive presupposition that if you win, I lose, because we both can't flourish together.
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