Forgiveness & Reconciliation Religion Public Policy & Conflict Transformation

In this unique collection of essays, experts in the area of conflict resolution focus on the role forgiveness can play in the process. This book deals with the theology, public policy, psychological and social theory, and social policy implementation of forgiveness.

Forgiveness and Reconciliation explores how ideas like forgiveness and reconciliation are moving from the seminary and the academy into the world of public policy; addresses forgiveness and public policy; draws readers to a more particular analysis of the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation; and highlights the work of practitioners currently working with religion, public policy, and conflict transformation.

A theology of forgiveness: terminology, rhetoric, and the dialectic of interfaith relationships / Rodney L. Petersen -- Forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice: a Christian contribution to a more peaceful social environment / Miroslav Volf -- Forgiveness and reconciliation: an Orthodox perspective / Stanley S. Harakas -- Does religion fuel or heal in conflicts? / Raymond G. Helmick -- Religion and peacemaking / Joseph V. Montville -- Religion and foreign policy / Douglas M. Johnston Jr.-- The role of identity reconstruction in promoting reconciliation / Donna Hicks -- What is forgiveness in a secular political form? / Donald W. Shriver Jr.-- Unforgiveness, forgiveness, and reconciliation and their implications for societal interventions / Everett L. Worthington Jr.-- Five qualities of practice in support of reconciliation processes / John Paul Lederach -- Healing, reconciliation, and forgiving after genocide and other collective violence / Ervin Staub and Laurie Anne Pearlman -- Hatred's end: a Christian proposal to peacemaking in a new century / John Dawson -- Truth commissions as instruments of forgiveness and reconciliation / Audrey R. Chapman -- Implementation of track two diplomacy: developing a model of forgiveness / Olga Botcharova -- Through nonviolence to truth: Gandhi's vision of reconciliation / Anthony Da Silva -- Brokenness, forgiveness, healing and peace in Ireland / Geraldine Smyth -- Forgiveness and reconciliation in the Mozambique peace process / Andrea Bartoli -- Conversion as a way of life in cultures of violence / Ofelia Ortega -- Afterword: Exploring the unique role of forgiveness / George F.R. Ellis.