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Healing in a hard place
from the article by Naseem Rakha in the Sunday Oregonian:
How do people heal from violent crime? How do they mend after a rape or assault, or after losing a loved one to murder? How do they get over the grief, anger and gnawing sense that no matter what happens, justice will never be served?
For Patricia Dahlgren, whose mother, June Duncan, was abducted and strangled in December 1995, the answer came from an unusual source: the man who killed her mother.
May 31, 2010 Dialogue, Offender, Victim, Prison, Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu meets victims and perpetrators of violence
from Marina Cantacuzino's entry in The Huffington Post:
From the moment I first met Archbishop Desmond Tutu back in 2003, it was always my intention to one day ask him to give a lecture in London on behalf of The Forgiveness Project, an organization which he supports that explores forgiveness and reconciliation through the personal storis of real people.
Knowing, however, that everyone wants a small piece of one of the world's most admired humanitarians, I did not imagine for a minute that I would succeed. But I had underestimated the man who gives so much to so many, and my request was in fact met with an enthusiastic 'yes!' via the Archbishop's personal BlackBerry.
May 20, 2010 Forgiveness, Victim
Justice, reconciliation and peacebuilding: Seen through African eyes
from Rev. Clement Apengnuo's First Annual Fr. Bill Dyer Lecture:
In 2000 the Catholic Diocese of Damongo in collaboration with the Catholic Relief Services started a peace project to build local capacity for justice-building, reconciliation and peace-building. In the course of my work I had to deal with the issue of the relevance of a Western style peace-building in African conflicts. Why not use the African traditional systems of conflict resolution? Implicit in these statements is the assumption that the Western style is foreign and in effective. African traditional systems work better in an African setting. African conflicts, African solutions. At the international level, indigenous and traditional practices of peace-building are regarded as unaccountable, opague and contradictory to the “enlightened” intentions of Western form of peacebuilding (liberal Peace) and internationally sponsored post war reconstruction efforts.
May 04, 2010 Truth, National Reconciliation, Indigenous, Country:Ghana, Region: Africa, Victim, Conceptual, Forgiveness, Theory
