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A Safe Space: How Local Leaders Can make Room for Reconciliation

Spies, Chris.
June 4, 2015

Source: (1997) Track Two. 6(3&4)

Spies explores the meanings of reconciliation for a community and the reasoning for ongoing conflicts. Using a survey, Spies and a local team gathered the peoplexe2x80x99s ideas and definitions of reconciliation. The main argument was that a safe place for open and honest discussion was needed to foster reconciliation. The ongoing conflicts in the community were linked to misunderstandings about history, place, and motives.

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