Correspondent Kim Lawton talks again with minister, educator, author, and Morehouse College president Robert Franklin, who turns to theologian Howard Thurman to make sense of the events of 9/11.

“It’s a spectacular opportunity for cross-cultural associations that are peace-based, that are based in the holiness of this land,” says Steve Lozar, a council leader of the Salish Tribe in Montana.

In a new book called "The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama," Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter ponders the vocabulary of just and unjust war and the significance of using the American military for humanitarian intervention.

The Catholic peace movement Pax Christi USA met outside the White House for prayers of repentance for war.

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We need the prophetic dimension of all our religious traditions to navigate the darkness of war and to restrain our declarations of “peace when there is no peace,” as the Hebrew prophets said.

"If a war is unjust then the duty to establish postwar justice is all the more imperative, even though that won’t retroactively make it a just war."

Watch Notre Dame peace studies and political science professor George Lopez, also a fellow at the US Institute of Peace, comment on the consequences of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to terrorist organizations.

"American citizens must look beyond the vicissitudes of military leadership to the form of ordered peace they desire their military power to bring about."

"If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church."