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 back into lives erased by violence, and invite communities into a deeper humanity.
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