VANCOUVER - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama told the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit that technology may be getting in the way of peace.
During a panel discussion about peace, the Dalai Lama told a crowd that compassion and awareness will lead to peace, but technology has no capacity to produce compassion.
EBay founder Pierre Omidyar disagreed, saying the Internet has enabled us to discover that people around the world have much more in common than first believed and that can lead to peace.
The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu were both presented with the Fetzer Prize for love and forgiveness at the summit.
Tutu, who issued his thanks via video from South Africa, said religion has often been used almost diabolically to encourage such things as xenophobia and homophobia.
Nobel Peace prize winners, spiritual leaders, and corporate and social leaders have all been invited to speak on the theme of peace at the three-day Vancouver summit that ends Tuesday.
