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eBook Category: Spiritual/Religion
eBook Description: This book brings together a unique combination of experts in the area of conflict resolution and focuses on the role forgiveness can play in the process. It deals with the theology, public policy, psychological and social theory, and social policy implementation of forgiveness. The first section of the book 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. One of the contributors, Miroslav Volf, speaks to the Christian contribution of a more peaceful environment. 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 particular analysis of the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation from voices in the academic and theological community. John Paul Lederach presents five qualities of practice in support of the reconciliation process. John Dawson gives hope for peace-making in a new century. 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. This book will be an essential resource for libraries, scholars, conflict negotiators, and all people who hope to understand the role of forgiveness in the peace process. Contributors include: Desmond M. Tutu, Rodney L. Petersen, Miroslav Volf, Stanley S. Harakas, Raymond G. Helmick, S.J., 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, S.J., Geraldine Smyth, O.P., Andrea Bartoli, Ofelia Ortega, and George F.R. Ellis. Highlights Essays by twenty-one contributors from the field of conflict resolution Essential information on the effectiveness of forgiveness in international affairs Valuable appendix of conflict resolution and forgiveness-related organizations

eBook Publisher: Aquarius House Press, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2003

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"This collection, from a 1999 Templeton Foundation/Harvard conference on how religion can affect conflict resolution in the public sphere, examines much of the theology of reconciliation and forgiveness from major Western religious traditions. It also examines the ambiguous role of religion in recent conflicts--both contributions to those conflicts and attempts to limit conflict and bring about reconciliation. As one author points out, "There is no innocent place to start." Religions, like everything else, are evolving, mainly toward calling up from their histories those traits that will be most useful in bringing about future peace. Reconciliation is an obvious instrument in churches' resources to address contemporary issues. However, when opposing sides continue to cherish selectively their traumas and glories, a lot of education needs to occur, even in successful forums like South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Reconciliation is not a quick process, not a matter of "fixing things" as many impatient Americans would like. "Track two diplomacy" and grass roots intercommunity activity seem to be the most fruitful contributions to current conflict resolution and reconciliation. Read this with Johnston's Religion: The Missing Dimension of Statecraft (CH, February 1995). A directory of peace and justice organizations is helpful for student assignments. All readership levels. D. A. Brown, emeritus, California State University, Fullerton. Public policy makers, theologians and other experts in the area of conflict resolution explore the role forgiveness can play in "Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy, and conflict Resolution," edited by Raymond G. Helmick, S.J. and Rodney L. Petersen (Templeton Foundation Press). Bishop Desmond Tutu, in his foreword to this study, reflects on his experience in heading the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the aftermath of South Africa's agony of apartheid. He writes, "I have gone through the crucible of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and have been devastated by the extent of the evil revealed in the process ... I have looked into the abyss of human evil and seen the depth to which we can; in fact plumb." Essays begin with an analysis of the theology of forgiveness, including an exploration of terminology, rhetoric and the dialectic of interfaith relationships; a discussion of the Christian contribution to a peaceful social environment; and a view of the Orthodox perspective on forgiveness."--Cleveland Banner