Scholars across multiple disciplines have offered a variety of accounts of reconciliation—what reconciliation is, under what conditions it should be…
On parable, truth, and true and false reconciliation
reconciliation
In the spirit of reconciliation
Pamela Klassen offers her subtle and judicious book to us “in the spirit” of the call issued in the 2015…
Reconciliation in the real world
In Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, I argue that religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in particular—offer…
Reconciliation and the pursuit of peace
Today, at the beginning of 2013, the world is confronted by a bewildering array of protracted and new armed conflicts:…
Recasting an agenda for peace
The International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its ten-year anniversary last summer. During its first decade of life, both the shadow…
Janus-faced justice
One of Philpott’s goals in Just and Unjust Peace is to challenge both sorts of reactions to the role of…
Justice and reconciliation
Recent history is full of episodes of egregious, widespread and often systematic wrongdoing: genocide, torture, and mass killing. Cambodia, South…
A new theory on political wounds
Daniel Philpott has written an impressive book that offers a new conception of political reconciliation for the field of transitional…
Relevance of religious episteme in search of a just peace
Daniel Philpott’s book, Just and Unjust Peace, can be regarded as a milestone for policymakers and academics looking for ways…
Paradigms for Peacebuilding
Next Thursday, November 10, the the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the SSRC, and a range of other institutions…