Some chapters were initially presented as part of a conference Pathways to Reconciliation, co-sponsored by the University of Manitoba, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the University of Winnipeg in June 2016. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-312).
Contents:
Paved with comfortable intentions: moving beyond liberal multiculturalism and civil rights frames on the road to transformative reconciliation / David B. MacDonald -- Perceptions on truth and reconciliation: lessons from Gacaca in post-genocide Rwanda / Regine Uwibereyeho King and Benjamin Maiangwa -- Monitoring that reconciles: reflecting on the TRC's call for a national council for reconciliation / Cody O'Neil -- A move to distract: mobilizing truth and reconciliation in settler colonial states / Rachel (YacaaɁal) George -- Teaching truth before reconciliation / Erica Jurgens -- Learning and reconciliation for the collaborative governance of Forestland in northwestern Ontario, Canada / Melanie Zurba and John Sinclair -- What does reconciliation mean to newcomers post-TRC? / Cathy Rocke and Regine Uwibereyeho King -- Healing from residential school experiences: support workers and elders on healing and the role of mental health professionals / Tracey Carr and Brian Chartier -- Bending to the prevailing wind: how apology repetition helps speakers and hearers walk together / Peter Bush -- How do I reconcile Child and Family Services' practice of cultural genocide with my own practice as a CFS social worker? / Mary Anne Clarke -- Repatriation, reconciliation, and refiguring relationships: a case study of the return of children's artwork from the Alberni Indian Residential School to survivors and their families / Andrea Walsh -- Conclusion / Sheryl Lightfoot.
Summary:
"Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: "How can I/we participate in reconciliation?" Recognizing that reconciliation is not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue, and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers find their way forward. The essays in Pathways of Reconciliation address the themes of reframing, learning and healing, researching, and living. They engage with different approaches to reconciliation (within a variety of reconciliation frameworks, either explicit or implicit) and illustrate the complexities of the reconciliation process itself. They canvass multiple and varied pathways of reconciliation, from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives, reflecting a diversity of approaches to the mandate given to all Canadians by the TRC with its Calls to Action. Together the authors -- academics, practitioners, students and ordinary citizens -- demonstrate the importance of trying and learning from new and creative approaches to thinking about and practicing reconciliation and reflect on what they have learned from their attempts (both successful and less successful) in the process."-- Provided by publisher.
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