Like all government institutions, Abou Assali's committee is half Muslim, half Christian. We will emphasize what civil conflict cost on a human, social and economic level. For the time being, this is the only way. We are in a period of healing. Later we can raise the truth dosage.
Many scholars are understandably skeptical about any such bland, processed information.
You can't abolish sectarianism in Lebanon, just as you can't abolish race thinking in America. A tiny country with 17 different Christian and Muslim religious sects, Lebanon disintegrated through internal schisms and the power struggles of its neighbors. A deft practitioner of the principle of divide and rule, Syrian President Hafez Assad constantly arbitrates between quarreling Lebanese politicians. All are beneficiaries of a tripartite system that reserves the presidency for the Maronites, the Prime Minister's office for Sunni Muslims and the speaker of parliament's job for the Shi'ites. When President Elias Hrawi and Prime Minister Hariri last year proposed extending Hrawi's five-year term, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri opposed this breach of the constitution.