As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name.

If you were told that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it werenâ€™t only one, but thousands?

Could there be a common roadmap to reconciliation? Could there be a shared future after unthinkable evil? If forgiveness is possible after the slaughter of nearly a million in a hundred days in Rwanda, then today, more than ever, we owe it to humanity to explore how one country is addressing perceptual, social-psychological, and spiritual dimensions to achieve a more lasting peace. If forgiveness is possible after genocide, then perhaps there is hope for the comparably smaller rifts that plague our relationships, our communities, and our nation.

Based on personal interviews and thorough research, As We Forgive returns to the boundary lines of genocideâ€™s wounds and traces the route of reconciliation in the lives of Rwandansâ€”victims, widows, orphans, and perpetratorsâ€”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.

As We Forgive explores the pain, the mystery, and the hope through seven compelling stories of those who have made this journey toward reconciliation. The result is a narrative that breathes with humanity and is as haunting as it is hopeful.
Country USA
Brand Zondervan
Manufacturer Zondervan
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-02-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Brand	Zondervan
Manufacturer	Zondervan
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-02-10
Format	Kindle eBook

As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation from Rwanda

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