Ani Kalayjian, Raymond F. Paloutzian

Gebundenes Buch

Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building

Beschreibung

We all long for peace within ourselves, families, communities, countries, and throughout the world. We wonder what we can do about the multitude of con?icts currently wreaking havoc across the globe and the continuous reports of violence in communities as well as within families. Most of the time, we contemplate solutions beyond our reach, and overlook a powerful tool that is at our disposal: forgiveness. As a genocide survivor, I know something about it. As the genocide unfolded in Rwanda in 1994, I was devastated by what I believed to be the inevitable deaths of my loved ones. The news that my parents and my seven siblings had indeed been killed was simply unbearable. Anger and bitterness became my daily companions. Likewise, I continued to wonder how the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda could possibly reconcile after one of the most horrendous genocides of the 20th century. It was not until I came to understand the notion of forgiveness that I was able to see the light at the end ofthe tunnel. Common wisdom suggests that forgiveness comes after a perpetrator makes a genuine apology. This wisdom informs us that in the aftermath of a wrongdoing, the offender must acknowledge the wrong he or she has done, express remorse, express an apology, commit to never repeating said harm, and make reparations to theextentpossible.Onlythencanthevictimforgiveandagreetoneverseekrevenge.

Autor

Dr. Anie Kalayjian is a professor of psychology at Fordham University. She is also President of the Association for Disaster and Mass Trauma Studies and the Armenian American Society for Studies on Stress and Genocide. Dr. Kalayjian has been involved at the United Nations for the past fifteen years, where she works with several departments focusing on human rights, women, and mental health. Dr. Raymond F. Paloutzian received his doctoral degree from Claremont Graduate School and has been a professor of experimental and social psychology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara since 1981. He has been a visiting professor teaching psychology of religion at Stanford University and Guest Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Western Psychological Association, and has served as President of APA Division 36 (Psychology & Religion). He is currently the editor of The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion.

Produktdetails

• Peace Psychology Book Series
• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11763390, 978-1-4419-0180-4
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781441901804
• ISBN-10: 1441901809
• Artikelnr.: 25950975

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "This book is full of insights and analyses that help the reader to apply forgiveness and reconciliation to any interpersonal or international conflict. ... This is not just another academic book about an obscure topic, namely, psychology and peacebuilding, but a truly useful handbook on getting beyond war and violence. ... This fundamentally practical and needed book adds ... essential to the literature by defending the value of the harder road." (Michael Funk Deckard, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 14 (21), May, 2010)