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Developing a Vision for a Society in Which We Would All Like to Live
With this newsletter, we start imagining a less polarized future with lessons from South Africa from Ebrahim Rasool as well as observations from Neal Kohatsu, Ken Cloke, and Duncan Autrey.
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Ebrahim Rasool on What America Might Learn From South Africa's 300+ Years of Struggle
A report on a talk by the former U.S. Ambassador from South Africa, on what the South African struggle for racial justice can teach Americans.
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Reconciliation as a Noun and a Verb (Outcome and Process)
This video explains how reconciliation is both an outcome and the processes used to reach that outcome.
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The Many Types of Reconciliation
Prospective, retrospective, unilateral, bilateral, multilateral, historic, and contemporaneous reconciliation---how are they different? Which to use when?
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Watch accomplished experts offer hope on the path to reconciliation
These speakers address what reconciliation means to them. By considering their perspectives, we can begin to understand the complexity of reconciliation. These videos are an excellent reminder to resist easy answers.
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Reconciliation
Reconciliation involves constructively looking at the often unrightable wrongs of the past (and the present) and then imagining and building a more desirable future that addresses those wrongs and avoids repeating them.
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Adding to the call to action---A few more thoughts
An exploration of the importance of framing and the need to take control of the destructive narratives that are so pervasive in polarized democracies. We need to replace them with a shared vision for our future -- one that is attractive to everyone including those with whom we disagree.
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Prospective Reconciliation
Prospective reconciliation involves looking ahead to figure out how conflicting groups can successfully live together in the future.
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Retrospective Reconciliation
Unlike prospective reconciliation, which looks forward, retrospective reconciliation looks backwards, using a balanced strategy for coming to terms with past wrongs. Truth and reconciliation commissions, apologies, remediation, and forgiveness are usually aspects of retrospective reconciliation.
News and Opinion
A Recipe for a Striving America
From David Brooks, an illuminating attempt to formulate a vision for an America that can start filling in its deep economic and political chasms.