Reconciliation Resources

What does it mean to build a new social and moral imagination? Can we really get beyond a toxic environment?

Here are my favorite resources for people who wish to promote a hopeful vision of reconciliation:

Living Heroes:

• U.N. Human Rights Prize Winner Angelina Atyam and the CCYA of Lira, Uganda
• Marguerite Barankitse’s Maison Shalom, Opus prize winner for the Top Faith-Based Social Entrepreneur
• The members of the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard
• John Finley IV and Epiphany School
• Ted Ryan, Ethics professor at Duke’s Business School (TEDx talk here)
• Dr. Pramilla Senanayake and the Educate a Child Trust
• Dr. Ray Barfield, a pediatric palliative care doctor (St. Judes & Duke)
• U.N. Human Rights Prize Winner Bishop Paride Taban’s Holy Kuron Peace Village
• Mrs. Jean Jackson who housed Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Selma movement
• Sr. Mathias and Sr. Peter-Paul of the Maria Goretti Girl’s Training Centre, Uganda
• Jean Vanier and the L’Arche Communities
• Thich Nhat Hahn who Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
• Wojciech Szczerba, leader of an interfaith reconciliation initiative in Dietrich Bonhoffer’s birthplace
• The prison tennis program at San Quentin

 

Select reconciliation statues:

• The Yale Civil War Memorial
• Duke University Reconciliation statue
• Reconciliations statue by Josefina de Vasconcellos in Coventry, Japan, Belfast, and Germany
• Confederate-Union memorial in Kentucky
• Cities of peace proclamations

Reconciliation writings:

• The writings of Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice
• The writings of Miroslav Volf
• The writings of Thich Nhat Han
• The writings of Jeremy Begbie
• The works of Malcolm Guite
• The works of Seamus Heaney
• The writings of Julia Cameron
• The works of Deepak Chopra
• The affirmations of Belleruth Naperstak
• TEDx: Building Beloved Community
• A short series on reconciliation from Duke Divinity School, including Friendship at the Margins, by the Duke Center for Reconciliation
• The Great Lakes Institute, a consortium of reconciliation leaders formed by the Duke Center for Reconciliation

Please do note: reconciliation does not mean being in a relationship with a person who is abusive, pathological, or otherwise harmful. The purpose of relationships are to help a community flourish.