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Forgiveness and Reintegration: How the Transformative Process of Forgiveness Impacts Child Soldier Reintegration - Softcover

Stephanie Goins

 
9781908355928: Forgiveness and Reintegration: How the Transformative Process of Forgiveness Impacts Child Soldier Reintegration

Synopsis

Forgiveness, essential for all healthy human relations, becomes all the more critical when speaking of good reintegration for child soldiers. Children were both victims and perpetrators of horrendous crimes during Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil war that ended in 2002. Many former child soldiers sought to reintegrate with their families and communities, though the receptiveness of families and communities was essential for this process to be successful. This book examines forgiveness and reintegration from psychological, theological, philosophical and anthropological perspectives and asks if forgiveness can contribute to and facilitate reintegration for former child soldiers. Despite the magnitude of atrocities experienced, Sierra Leone’s people have demonstrated that indeed, the transformative process of forgiveness has enabled them to live in forgiving ways for more than 13 years.

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About the Author

Having begun her career in psychology, Dr. Stephanie Goins is currently serving as Executive Programs Director for a human rights organization focusing on prevention and aftercare for trafficked and exploited children. Dr. Goins is passionate for the well being of children, deeply committed to justice, and dedicated to a lifestyle of forgiveness. She has spent considerable time abroad, and discovered how critical it is to frame our understandings through the eyes of the other, particularly those of a child. These values and beliefs led her to Sierra Leone, where she discovered that recovery from even the most horrendous of crimes could be facilitated through the transformative power of forgiveness.

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