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LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE THE POWER OF WORDS TO HARM, HEAL, OR TRANSFORM
The island’s long struggle with ethnic conflict, political polarisation, and social inequality has shown repeatedly that words can do what weapons do: divide, destroy, and dehumanise. Yet it has also shown that words can stitch together broken trust, speak dignity
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YES, MIRACLES ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH NONVIOLENT/ COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION
The systematic and intentional misuse of language – through hate speech, propaganda, misinformation, fake news, or coded forms of exclusion – produces violence at multiple levels: personal, structural, and cultural. In such contexts, a conscious and disciplined practice of Nonviolent
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THE VICTIM AND THE WORD LAMENT AS A LANGUAGE OF PEACEBUILDING Pax
This article argues that sustainable peacebuilding in Congo requires more than institutional reformor conflict management; further it demands the recovery of the victim’s voice as a central moral and theological category.
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LANGUAGE LIGHTS UP THE WORLD
Tagore wrote prolifically, primarily in Bengali – around 2500 songs, poems, plays, essays, novels, and short stories; he was also a painter. He used several registers of Bengali, ranging from the formal to the colloquial. Living through two World Wars,
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