Lessons in peace

Jordan Carleo-Evangelist writes in today’s Times Union about Seamus Hodgkinson, a former resident of Belfast, who won Anne Frank award for creating a visiting student program at Doane Stuart for teens from Northern Ireland.

"You can't just wish peace. You can't just wish violence away," Hodgkinson said in a recent interview at the hilltop private school at Albany's extreme southern end. Turning his idea into a reality was the challenge, much like the work needed to create Doane Stuart, which school officials call the country's only successfully integrated Protestant and Catholic school.

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