Winter/Spring 2009: Reconsidering Reconciliation

On the cover: On August 12, 2008, at The Sonrise School in Musanze, Rwanda, Episcopal Bishop John K. Rucyahana talks to one of the school’s 900 students. The school opened in 2001, and three-quarters of its students are orphans as a result of the 1994 genocide. Fifteen years later, Tutsis and Hutus are working together to reconcile their differences: schools and orphanages have been established for the victims, “reconciliation villages” are bringing former enemies together, and peace is becoming a plausible goal in Rwanda. Photo by Sarah Bones, courtesy of World Picture Network.

Features

• Pacifism Builds on Commitment to a Free Society: A Tribute to John Swomley
  by Thomas C. Fox
• The Human Quest Ceases Publishing After 200 Years, Contributes to Fellowship
  by Jane Stoever
• Active Nonviolence Across the World: A Modern History
  by Richard Deats
• A New Korea Policy for the United States: Real Change We Can Believe In
  by John H. Kim
• International Voices on Reconciliation: A Fellowship Forum
  • Collective Security
    by Judith Le Blanc
  • Pakistan: A Path to Peace?
    by Farrukh Sohail Goindi
  • On Reconciliation
    by Samia Khoury
  • The International Year of Reconciliation
    by Rene Wadlow
  • From A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation
    by Naim Ateek

Poetry

• A Taxpayer’s Fear
  by Tom Greening
• My Friend
  by Osama Alomar
• Initial Impressions in the Sand
  by Bill Plitt
• To a Gold Star Mother
  by William Stafford

Departments

• Editorial: Ruminations on Reconciliation
  by Ethan Vesely-Flad
• Letters to the Editor
• News of the Fellowship:
  • End Plan Colombia: A Letter to President Obama
  • End the Israeli Occupation: A Letter to President Obama
    by Mairead Corrigan Maguire
  • Loving Our Enemies: The People of Iran
    by John Dear
  • Vietnam: War with Agent Orange Revisited
    by Bernie Meyer
  • Responding in Truth: Women Providing Leadership and Restoring Balance
    by Joan Whitacre
  • Interfaith Dr. King Day Event Helps Launch Inaugural Celebration
• Heartbeat: Ghost Dances
  by Rabia Terri Harris
• Reviews: Marked for Life; Beyond Bogota; We Who Dared to Say No to War; A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation; Armageddon in Retrospect; The Tyranny of Oil; Acts of Conscience; American Nonviolence; In Harm’s Way; 118 Days; The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin
• Recommended Resources
• Obituaries