ISBN:
9780765613332
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (294 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Roads to Reconciliation: Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-first Century
DDC:
303.6/9
Keywords:
Conflict management
;
Reconciliation
;
Violence
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Unlike other books on conflict resolution that focus on particular places and moments in history, this original work attempts to understand the process from many different perspectives and in many different contexts - from international political conflicts, to racial and religious struggles within one culture, to the internal conflicts of individuals struggling with the desire for revenge in the wake of 9/11. Designed as a starting point for meaningful dialogue on the elusive concept of reconciliation, the book includes views from Christians and Muslims, scholars and politicians, and draws on
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface: Our Road to this Volume; Introduction: The Rhetoric of War and Reconciliation; Part I. Religion and Reconciliation; Rites and Remembrance: Living with the Dead of September 11; Vengeance Is Never Enough: Alternative Visions of Justice; Murder, Mourning, and the Ideal of Reconciliation; September 11: Clash of Civilizations or Islamic Revolution?; Part II. Science and Reconciliation; Reconciling Trauma and the Self: The Role of Narrative in Coping with Sexual Abuse and Terrorism
Description / Table of Contents:
Reconciliation and the Craving for Revenge in PsychotherapyThe Law of the Jungle: Conflict Resolution in Primates; Reflections on the Future of Life; Part III. Racial Reconciliation: Theory and Practice in America; United We Stand: Terrorism and National Identity; Reconciliation and the Beloved Community; Toward a Vision of Reconciliation: Moving Beyond a Black/White ""Race"" Paradigm; Race, Class, and Reconciliation; All God's Children Got Shoes: Social Justice and Reconciliation; Part IV. Higher Education and Human Rights; Practicing Reconciliation in the Classroom After September 11
Description / Table of Contents:
September 11 and the Search for Justice and AccountabilityReconciliation in the New Millennium; An Agenda for Higher Education; About the Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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