April 13, 2013

The Work of Fethullah Gulen & the Role of Non-violence in a Time of Terror (2)

Steve Wright, Ph.D.*

(cont'd from part 1)

…In many senses, Fethullah Gülen is following the holistic, spiritual and cultural approaches to peace identified by Smoker and Groff. It is now a global faith based movement with schools in more than one hundred countries including Kazakhstan, Kenya, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil and Bosnia. We are informed that today there are more than 300 private high schools and seven universities affiliated with the Gülen community, with over 150 schools in Turkey alone. It is a sign of the health of the Gülen movement that today that number is undoubtedly far greater.