"Dialogue constitutes more than merely a better understanding or toleration of our differences, indeed, dialogue is the essence of reconciliation and transformation. Therefore, religious leaders should be working together, through dialogue, to affirm God's peace in the world. We, as religious leaders, have a moral obligation to resist war and promote peace as a vital and fundamental necessity for all humanity. Religion cannot and should never be a basis for war and conflict, nor should it be used as an instrument of fundamentalism and fanaticism for purely political motives and ends."
+ Ecumenical Patriarchate Bartholomew I, August 14, 2012, Communiqué on the resurgence of Violence spreading throughout the World, http://www.patriarchate.org/documents/violence
Also Professor Richard Schneider on a similar discussion on the importance of Dialogue & Unity:
