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<span><span>The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual </span><span>Gestalt</span><span> emerges in these essays, one not fully integrated in a formal way but showing a clear understanding of some of the challenges and possibilities for dealing with the deep divisions, enmity, hatred, and other effects of violence.</span></span>

<span><span>Introduction: Deep-Rooted Conflict, Reconciliation and Mimetic Theory</span></span>
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<span><span>Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba</span></span>
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<span><span>Part I. FORGIVENESS, RESPONSIBILITY, AND BLESSING</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: Mimetic Desire, Aphetic Mimesis, and Reconciliation as the Nexus of Letting Go and Turning Around </span></span>
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<span><span>Cameron Thomson </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: The Self and Other People: Reading Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation with René Girard and Emmanuel Levinas </span></span>
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<span><span>Sandor Goodhart</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: Dialogical Response</span></span>
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<span><span>Sandor Goodhart and Vern Neufeld Redekop </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: Blessing-Based Reconciliation in the Face of Violence</span></span>
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<span><span>Vern Neufeld Redekop</span></span>
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<span><span>Part II. THEOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP, PEACE, AND NON-VIOLENCE</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: Towards a Theology of Friendship in the “Global Village”</span></span>
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<span><span>Nadia Delicata</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: Toward a Coming Religious Peace</span></span>
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<span><span>Jon Pahl </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 7: The Creative Non-Violent Approach of Walter Wink</span></span>
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<span><span>Sue-Anne Hess</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 8: Improvising the Practice of Nonresistance as Creative Mimesis</span></span>
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<span><span>Peter Smith</span></span>
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<span><span>Part III. RETHINKING GIRARDIAN CONCEPTS</span></span>
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<span>Chapter 9: René Girard and the Symbolism of Religious Sacrifice</span>
<span>Eugene Webb</span>
<span>Chapter 10: Psychology, Hermeneutic Philosophy, and Girardian Thought: Toward a Creative Mimesis</span>
<span>Frank Richardson and Kathryn Frost</span>
<span><span>Chapter 11: Rethinking Girardian Reconciliation: The Myth of the Exception</span></span>
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<span><span>Leonhard Praeg</span></span>
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<span><span>Part IV. RECONCILIATION IN CONTEXT</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 12: Seeding Reconciliation in a Theatre of War: A New Role for Military Chaplains </span></span>
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<span><span>Steve Moore</span></span>
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<span>Chapter 13: India and Pakistan: Changing Trajectory: The Role Of Karma Within a Framework Of Reconciliation</span>
<span>Rupa Menon</span>
<span><span>Chapter 14: There is a crack in everything…. New relationships for self and other in Northern Ireland</span></span>
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<span><span>Duncan Morrow</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 15: Reconciliation as Resistance: Martyrdom in East Timor</span></span>
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<span><span>Joel Hodge</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 16: Mimesis, Residential Schools and Reconciliation</span></span>
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<span><span>Cynthia Stirbys </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 17: Bosnian Children of Command Rape</span></span>
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<span><span>Angela Kiraly</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 18: “We Forgive and ask Forgiveness”: The Papal Prayers for Forgiveness in Mimetic Perspective—With an Afterthought on Recent Cases of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Church Officials</span></span>
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<span><span>Nikolaus Wandinger</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 19: From Fracturing Resemblances to Restorative Differences: Identity, Conflict, and Mimetic Desire among the Maya Tzotzil Chamula of Chiapas Mexico </span></span>
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<span><span>Miguel de Las Casas Rolland</span></span>
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<span><span>Conclusion</span></span>
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<span><span>Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba</span></span>

<span><span>Vern Neufeld Redekop</span><span> is a full professor in the School of Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University, Ottawa. He is the co-author of </span><span>Introduction to Conflict Studies: Empirical, Theoretical, and Ethical Dimensions</span><span> (2012) and </span><span>Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd – Police Relations </span><span>(2010).<br><br></span><span>Thomas Ryba</span><span> is Notre Dame Theologian-in-Residence at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center as well as lecturer in philosophy and religious studies and adjunct professor of Jewish studies at Purdue University.</span></span>