Reconciliation is not only possible but needed in all stages of conflict

Reconciliation involves transforming relationships damaged by violent conflict and oppression. It focuses on improving both horizontal ...

Reconciliation Part 1: What Is Reconciliation? - Beyond Intractability

For those who ask, "what would Jesus do," reconciliation is often not just an important issue, but the most important one in any conflict. In ...

Reconciliation Must Evolve to Reflect Growing Complexity of ...

Alpaslan Özerdem, Dean of George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in the United States, said reconciliation should ...

The reconciliation paradox - Peace in Progress magazine - ICIP

In its simplest form, reconciliation is the process of addressing conflictual and fractured relationships after political conflict. The term reconciliation can, ...

Coexistence and the Reconciliation of Communal Conflicts

Conflicts emerge, escalate, de-escalate and end. Actions that foster equitable coexistence and reconciliation may be taken at any stage of a conflict. For ...

Reconciliation, forgiveness, redemption - our unfinished business

Reconciliation deals with the residues of conflict and trauma: events that have brought pain and suffering to a great number of people. Emma ...

The Nature of Reconciliation as an Outcome and as a Process

Reconciliation goes beyond the agenda of formal conflict resolution to changing the motivations, goals, beliefs, attitudes, and emotions of the great majority ...

Reconciliation - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

While the outcome of reconciliation is oriented toward a future marked by peaceful and just relations, the processes of reconciliation are ...

Between Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution | by Amit Mittelman

For a conflict to be truly “settled,” it's not enough for it to be merely resolved. Sometimes, resolving a conflict — meaning closing the ...

Peace Building Through Reconciliation - Charles Lerche

Reconciliation seen from the latter perspective really calls an entire social system, and not just a particular group conflict system, into question. (This ...

Chapter 2 in Reconciliation after Violent Conflict - GSDRC

It is also not an event but a process, and as such usually a difficult, long and unpredictable one, involving various steps and stages. The reconciliation ...

Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: A Handbook - International IDEA

... reconciliation is not only a utopian idea but also a realistic ... It is, for obvious reasons, not possible to provide an overview of all national norms and mecha ...

Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation: A Social - Scholars at Harvard

Conflict settlement is not a negligible achievement in a violent and destructive relationship with escalatory potential. In fact, conflict ...

The Place of Reconciliation in Transitional Justice

Reconciliation is a complex set of processes that involve building or rebuilding relationships, often in the aftermath of massive and widespread human rights ...

Section 4. Forgiveness and Reconciliation - Community Tool Box

Reconciliation in the context of community building assumes a need, a will, or an actual effort made on the part of an ...

Reconciliation: a brief presentation of the concept - Justice et Paix

As such, it can be an element of reconciliation. However, in many post-conflict contexts, we see that there can be no reconciliation without forgiveness. Going ...

Imagining peace and building paths to inclusive reconciliation in ...

Reconciliation involves knowing what happened: why, when, how, by whom and to whom. But information about who did what during the conflict is fraught with ...

Building Just societies: Reconciliation in tRansitional settings

Trauma needs to be understood as sequential, i.e., as part of a process that covers what happened before, during and after the conflict, and at different stages ...

Introduction: Why Reconciliation? - Oxford Academic

Identifying the roots of conflict and resolving such conflict does not necessarily promote stable peace or prevent new conflicts from coming about.

Reconciliation & Peacebuilding Processes

Because reconciliation is part of a long process, one should not necessarily expect it to be the end point of a conflict. But all analyses concur that no ...