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Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building

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Authors:
  1. Ani Kalayjian

    1. Cliffside Park, USA

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  2. Raymond F. Paloutzian

    1. Dept. Psychology, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, USA

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  • Identifies the central issues related with forgiveness and reconciliation
  • Inclusive, multidisciplinary, multi-ethnic, multi-generational and international perspectives and pathways
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  4. Intergroup, Societal, and International Levels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. A Black Social Psychologist's Perspective on Racial Forgiveness

      • Ansley W. LaMar
      Pages 155-170

    3. Rwanda: Repentance and Forgiveness – Pillars of Genuine Reconciliation

      • Antoine Rutayisire
      Pages 171-187

    4. Darfur: Efforts to Forgive and Reconcile in an Unresolved Conflict

      • Suliman A. Giddo
      Pages 189-206

    5. India and Pakistan on the Brink: Considerations for Truth, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness

      • André L. Brown, Rhea Almeida, Anita Dharapuram, Asma Warsi Choudry, Lisa Dressner, Pilar Hernández
      Pages 207-221

    6. Forgiveness in the Context of the Armenian Experience

      • Viken Yacoubian
      Pages 223-235

    7. Forgiveness in Spite of Denial, Revisionism, and Injustice

      • Ani Kalayjian
      Pages 237-249

    8. Reconciliation and Forgiveness in Divided Societies: A Path of Courage, Compassion, and Commitment

      • Paula Green
      Pages 251-268
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About this book

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 of the 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.

Reviews

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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cliffside Park, USA

    Ani Kalayjian

  • Dept. Psychology, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, USA

    Raymond F. Paloutzian

About the authors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Forgiveness and Reconciliation

  • Book Subtitle: Psychological Pathways to Conflict Transformation and Peace Building

  • Authors: Ani Kalayjian, Raymond F. Paloutzian

  • Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0181-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0180-4Published: 24 August 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6219-5Published: 23 June 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0181-1Published: 21 July 2009

  • Series ISSN: 2197-5779

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 306

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology

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