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This was how Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean Joseph S. Nye introduced Mitchell yesterday afternoon to an audience in the ARCO Forum.
In his speech, entitled "Making Peace," Mitchell discussed his experiences as a mediator in Northern Ireland and the circumstances leading up to the Good Friday Accord of 1998, which he helped hammer out.
He said in those negotiations, the parties at the table were used to exchanging bullets not handshakes. Mitchell said he went in "aware of the near-impossibility of the task."
Some thought he would become the commissioner of baseball, others a Supreme Court Justice, but former Senator George Mitchell (D-Maine) chose instead to spend his retirement making peace in Northern Ireland.
"Hate can come easy," he says. "I am having a tough time, and I pray. It's not as bad now as it was. But there were several times when I found myself confronted with mixed emotions. You just pray to God, 'Lord, help me. I need some help with...