As we forgive : stories of reconciliation from Rwanda

Title
As we forgive : stories of reconciliation from Rwanda

Personal Author EPSB
Catherine Claire. Larson

Summary
Can a country known for its radical brutality become a country known for an even more radical forgiveness? More than a decade after the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government has released tens of thousands of murderers back into the communities they ravaged. Survivors and perpetrators have had to learn to live again as neighbors. Inspired by the award-winning film "As We Forgive", this book explores the pain, the mystery, and the hope through seven compelling stories as victims, orphans, widows, and perpetrators journey toward reconciliation. Based on personal interviews and thorough research, "As We Forgive" returns to the boundary lines of genocideś wounds and traces the route of reconciliation in the lives of Rwandans-victims, widows, orphans, and perpetrators-whose past and future intersect. We find in these stories how suffering, memory, and identity set up roadblocks to forgiveness, while mediation, truth-telling, restitution, and interdependence create bridges to healing.

Year Published
2009

Physical Description
284 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

Subject
War victims -- Rwanda -- Biography.
 
Reconciliation -- Social aspects -- Rwanda.
 
Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
 
Social change -- Rwanda.
 
Social conflict -- Rwanda.

Geographic Term
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
 
Rwanda -- Ethnic relations.
 
Rwanda -- Social conditions.
 
Rwanda -- Biography.

Summary
Can a country known for its radical brutality become a country known for an even more radical forgiveness? More than a decade after the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government has released tens of thousands of murderers back into the communities they ravaged. Survivors and perpetrators have had to learn to live again as neighbors. Inspired by the award-winning film "As We Forgive", this book explores the pain, the mystery, and the hope through seven compelling stories as victims, orphans, widows, and perpetrators journey toward reconciliation. Based on personal interviews and thorough research, "As We Forgive" returns to the boundary lines of genocideś wounds and traces the route of reconciliation in the lives of Rwandans-victims, widows, orphans, and perpetrators-whose past and future intersect. We find in these stories how suffering, memory, and identity set up roadblocks to forgiveness, while mediation, truth-telling, restitution, and interdependence create bridges to healing.

ISBN
9780310287308

Publisher
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, c2009.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Edmonton Christian High967.57 LARBook30905000098982Non-Fiction