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DESCRIPTION:Quinn White (Harvard University) will be the third speaker in T
 he Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project\, organized by Mark Schroede
 r from the Philosophy Department\, for their workshop series\, with a talk
  titled "Forgiveness: Personal and Political.”\n\n \n\nAbstract: Forgive
 ness is essential. Though not always\, or even often\, the correct respons
 e to wrongdoing\, the power to forgive is one we cannot do without. Forgiv
 eness\, after all\, offers a way past wrongdoing. It is not the only way t
 o respond to wrongdoing\; we might ignore\, forget\, condone\, resent\, or
  hold others to account. But it is a distinctive way of somehow putting a 
 past wrong behind us without forgetting or condoning it. It is a way of co
 nfronting a past wrong head-on as wrong\, while at the same time preventin
 g that past wrong from defining the terms of one’s relationship with the
  wrongdoer\, or at least of limiting its effect. Some have likewise sugges
 ted that forgiveness can play a similar role in politics—that the power 
 of forgiveness to confront a past wrong and prevent it from defining the t
 erms of a relationship makes it an essential tool for responding to politi
 cal wrongdoing. In the waning months of South Africa’s transitional gove
 rnment\, its famous Truth and Reconciliation Commission struggled to compl
 ete its work before the transitional period ended. Then Deputy President\,
  soon to be President\, Thabo Mbeki expressed a sentiment widely shared by
  the framers of the new republic: that the TRC’s work was essential and 
 needed to be completed to pave the way for the establishment of a regular 
 democratic order. One might question King’s or Mbeki’s political judgm
 ents—some argued against the compromises of the TRC or against the non-v
 iolent civil rights movement.
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LOCATION:Stonier Hall (STO)\, 115
SUMMARY:CFCP Workshop: Quinn White (Harvard)
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