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Article: An End to Violence Through Forgiveness.(police officer Steven McDonald and writer Johann Christoph Arnold on their attempt to end violence in Northern Ireland)(Interview)
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- Insight on the News
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- August 23, 1999
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A Catholic police officer, Steven McDonald, and a Protestant pastor and writer, Johann Christoph Arnold, seek to help end the violence in Northern Ireland and also in American society.
On July 12, 1986, a 28-year-old, stocky, 6-foot-1-inch, New York City police officer named Steven McDonald, a member of the NYPD's undercover antirobbery unit, noticed a bulge under the pant cuff of one of three teen-agers he had stopped for questioning in an isolated area of Central Park. McDonald carried shield No. 15231, which had been his father's before he was promoted to sergeant. His mother's father, James J. Conway, also had been a New York policeman and, in 1936, was ...