On our last class day of Tuesday we will finish our discussion of V for Vendetta. Also please prepare a short section (first 2 chapters) from Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s book, No Future Without Forgiveness, as we discuss alternatives to revenge in conflict resolution. Tutu chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission following the fall of [...]
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Reading assignment for Tuesday, April 28th
Posted in reading assignments, tagged forgiveness, TRC, war crimes on April 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Two follow-up articles on Gaza
Posted in course business, tagged apology, forgiveness, Gaza, Israel, war on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the New York Times this Sunday there were two articles of interest with regard to our last writing assignment. Ethan Bronner, author of the article on Israeli views on the Gaza conflict that we read and responded to in our first assignment, wrote the essay “The Bullets in My In-Box.” He described the experience [...]
Assignments for Thursday, Jan. 22nd
Posted in reading assignments, writing assignments, tagged Enright, forgiveness, Homer, Jaeger, North, Odyssey on January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For Thursday please read: Odyssey, books 5-8. The emailed selections from Exploring Forgiveness (Madison, 1998): Chapter 2: Marietta Jaeger, “The Power and Reality of Forgiveness: Forgiving the Murderer of One’s Child,” 9-14. Chapter 3: Joanna North, “The ‘Ideal’ of Forgiveness: A Philosopher’s Exploration,” 15-34. Read pages 15-20, 24-29 (from “Reframing” through the first paragraph on [...]
words, words, words
Posted in commentary, tagged apology, forgiveness, Israel, war on January 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In “How Words Could End a War”, Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges address one strategy that may lead to peace in the Middle East: symbolic concessions could open up a channel for a productive dialogue about what a stable equilibrium between Palestine and Israel might look like. The words–of an apology, of recognition–are not enough [...]
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