Departures from Violence: Love Is Not Enough
There is something uplifting about reading John Borneman’s piece on what conditions might make reconciliation after violent conflict attainable (“Reconciliation after Ethnic Cleansing: Listening, Retribution, Affiliation,” Public Culture 14 [spring 2002]: 281–304). Perhaps it is hope in the face of despair at the multiplicity of ethnic cleansings past and present. Perhaps Borneman has afforded us the possibility to think about the subject without the elaboration of a specific case, while at the same time providing a model through which to ponder a particular instance if we so choose.
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