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CHALLENGING THE ‘IDEAL VICTIM’
Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Mexico as part of our project within the Jesuit University System (SUJ), this article analyses how victims actively reject condition of passive victimhood. By reclaiming their grief,they become politicised ‘victim-agents’ who contribute to peacebuilding
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INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTERS AND PREJUDICE REDUCTION
Is it possible to change negative prejudice through interreligious encounters? Can human beings change their own perceptions and adopt a new set of beliefs about others? From religious and educational perspectives, the answer to both questions is clearly yes. In
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A PHENOMENOLOGY OF RACE THE EMBODIED LIFE OF PREJUDICE
I show the importance of understanding how anti- Black prejudices are not simply doxastic, and how transforming a world of anti-Black prejudices importantly requires transforming how we engage in processes of world-making and radically rethinking how, in this case, white
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HUMANISING THE ‘OTHER’ CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN SRI LANKA
Dialogue is not simply the exchange of opinions. True dialogue begins when we are willing to listen to life stories that we have never heard before. When we listen deeply, we begin to see the human being behind the word
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A LANGUAGE OF EXCLUSION PREJUDICE AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN ANGLOPHONE CAMEROON
For decades, Anglophones were sent Frenchspeaking judges who could not read our law reports and teachers who could not teach in our language. We were told, in effect, that our difference was a problem to be administratively solved rather than
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