Forgiveness & Reconciliation
eBook - ePub

Forgiveness & Reconciliation

Public Policy & Conflict Transformation

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Forgiveness & Reconciliation

Public Policy & Conflict Transformation

About this book

 This book brings together a unique combination of experts in conflict resolution and focuses on the role forgiveness can play in the process. It deals with theology, public policy, psychological and social theory, and social policy implementation of forgiveness. This book is essential for libraries, scholars, conflict negotiators, and all people who hope to understand the role of forgiveness in the peace process.

The book's first section explores how ideas like "forgiveness" and "reconciliation" are moving out from the seminary and academy into the world of public policy and how these terms have been used and defined in the past. The second section looks at forgiveness and public policy. One of the chapters, by Donald W. Shriver Jr., addresses forgiveness in a secular political forum.

The third section of the book draws us to a more thorough analysis of the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation from voices in the academic and theological community, and the final section highlights the work of practitioners currently working with religion, public policy, and conflict transformation, particularly in areas such as Ireland and Africa. 

Contributors include Desmond M. Tutu, Rodney L. Petersen, Miroslav Volf, Stanley S. Harakas, Raymond G. Helmick, SJ, Joseph V. Montville, Douglas M. Johnston, Donna Hicks, Donald W. Shriver, Jr., Everett L. Worthington, Jr., John Paul Lederach, Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman, John Dawson, Audrey R. Chapman, Olga Botcharova, Anthony da Silva, SJ, Geraldine Smythe, OP, Andrea Bartoli, Ofelia Ortega, and George F. R. Ellis.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. PART I. The Theology of Forgiveness
  9. 1. A Theology of Forgiveness: Terminology, Rhetoric, and the Dialectic of Interfaith Relationships
  10. 2. Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Justice: A Christian Contribution to a More Peaceful Social Environment
  11. 3. Forgiveness and Reconciliation: An Orthodox Perspective
  12. PART II. Forgiveness and Public Policy
  13. 4. Does Religion Fuel or Heal in Conflicts?
  14. 5. Religion and Peacemaking
  15. 6. Religion and Foreign Policy
  16. 7. The Role of Identity Reconstruction in Promoting Reconciliation
  17. 8. Forgiveness: A Bridge Across Abysses of Revenge
  18. PART III. Forgiveness and Reconciliation
  19. 9. Unforgiveness, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation and Their Implications for Societal Interventions
  20. 10. Five Qualities of Practice in Support of Reconciliation Processes
  21. 11. Healing, Reconciliation, and Forgiving after Genocide and Other Collective Violence
  22. 12. Hatred’s End: A Christian Proposal to Peacemaking in a New Century
  23. PART IV. Seeking Forgiveness after Tragedy
  24. 13. Truth Commissions as Instruments of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
  25. 14. Implementation of Track Two Diplomacy: Developing a Model of Forgiveness
  26. 15. Through Nonviolence to Truth: Gandhi’s Vision of Reconciliation
  27. 16. Brokenness, Forgiveness, Healing, and Peace in Ireland
  28. 17. Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the Mozambique Peace Process
  29. 18. Conversion as a Way of Life in Cultures of Violence
  30. Afterword: Exploring the Unique Role of Forgiveness
  31. Appendix
  32. List of Contributors
  33. Index