The Day of Prayer for Peace at Assisi – the fifth of its kind, by my calculation – has come and gone. What have we learned from the experience? First of all, there were lots of people present, all representing various religious groupings, but, and this strikes me as the key thing to remember, all of these people praying for peace are themselves very peaceable people. The people who identify themselves as religiously committed, and equally committed to violence, were not there. So Assisi was essentially the converted preaching to themselves.