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\n\t\n\tPeople all over the world took part in the International Forum 2024.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"img](\"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/img_forum-2024_weltkarte2_20240920_ldb.jpg\" "\\"IMG_Forum")
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Keynote speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t Father in South Africa, Niwano Peace Prize Laureate 2021 and currently President of the Healing of Memories Global Network.<\/p>\n\t\t\t Professor of Gender and Development. She is Chairperson of the African Women's Leadership Network and one of the 100 Leading Women 2024 in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\t\t\t Theologian, national instructor in the religious moderation program of the Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t For many of Mission 21's partner churches and organizations, interreligious and transcultural peace work is an existential issue, as they live and work in crisis and conflict regions. In 2023, Mission 21 therefore launched the International Forum for Interreligious and Transcultural Peacebuilding. The second edition of the International Forum took place on September 19 and 20, 2024, once again bringing together over 200 participants from four continents for an intensive exchange of ideas.<\/p>\n The two-day online meeting entitled \"Daring Reconciliation?!\" - \"Daring Reconciliation?!\" focused on the topic of reconciliation and its challenges. This dossier contains the videos of the presentations as well as documents on the presentations by the speakers from South Africa, Nigeria, Indonesia and other countries.<\/p>\n\t Initially, reconciliation is recommended and demanded as the basis for a peace process. Reconciliation is probably understood by most people as a resumption or resumption of a broken relationship or a rapprochement between conflicting parties with the intention of making it more positive and peaceful. What can stand in the way of this?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tA closer look reveals the different levels of this process and its complexity: <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t On the one hand, reconciliation can be understood as an inner process, linked to finding one's identity and reconciliation with individual experiences and imprints. Coming to terms with oneself and one's own pain requires courage and often time and energy.<\/p>\n Reconciliation also describes processes in relationships in which two or more people move towards each other again through encounters and dialog after conflicts and injuries. Engaging with other people's pain and exposing oneself to honest feedback is both rewarding and challenging.<\/p>\n Reconciliation can also be seen as a necessity in relation to conflict parties at a societal level and between states and can include coming to terms with historical events or cultural influences. In addition to the current armed conflicts, polarized disputes and conflicts over resources, in which issues such as climate change or migration are emotionally charging and hardening the fronts, are also currently moving us. Apart from contractual agreements, legal judgments and ceasefire agreements that end or limit an armed conflict - is a process of reconciliation also necessary to achieve peace in the long term? Is reconciliation as an inner attitude helpful or even possible at the level of structures and societies?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe idea of the International Forum<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t In each case, reconciliation touches on one's own identity and therefore affects various aspects of human coexistence in society, politics and religion.<\/p>\n The International Forum for Interreligious and Transcultural Peacebuilding seeks to clarify and understand the step of reconciliation within a peace process, at all levels mentioned.<\/p>\n We exchange views on the necessary conditions for a reconciliation process to take place, share successful examples of interventions and approaches that can be promising on the path to reconciliation.<\/p>\n In addition to models of therapeutic support and coaching in expression and communication, the importance of spirituality, religion and theological approaches and the role of religious institutions and organizations are also discussed. Faith-Based<\/em> organizations, as well as aspects of jurisprudence, economics and politics. An attempt to shed light in a diverse and holistic way on how the process of reconciliation can be dared and succeed. We hope that a forum in an international learning community will provide inspiring and new perspectives on reconciliation processes worldwide.<\/p>\n\t\t\t \"In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people.\"Nelson Mandela<\/em><\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t \"It is not \"forgive and forget\" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but \"forgive and go forward\", building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.\"Alan Paton<\/em><\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t \"Overcoming the poison of bitterness needs more personal effort as to retain our relationship with God through forgiveness and reconciliation.\"Father James Oyet<\/em><\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t \"It would be too naive for the wounds caused in 100 years to be healed within 5 years\"Father Michael Lapsley<\/em><\/p>\t\t\n Session 1 took place on Thursday, September 19. Here you can find the video recordings in English and Spanish as well as information about the speakers including their texts and presentations.<\/p>\n\tFr. Michael Lapsley (SSM)<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
Prof. Oluwafunmilayo Para-Mallam<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
Dr. Martin Sinaga<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
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Reconciliation as a risk? What is the challenge?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\t
\n\t\tSession 1\n\t<\/h2>\n\tIn addition to keynote speaker Father Michael Lapsley, three other experienced speakers spoke in this session.
\nAll of our speakers have been involved in reconciliation processes. These include Father James Oyet Latansio (on the role of reconciliation in the deadlocked conflict in South Sudan), Carmen de los R\u00edos (on the hope for reconciliation in Peru) and Pastor Dr. Jerda Djawa (Indonesia).\n