Number 237, July 2001
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A gift freely offered, freely accepted ; Community, Dignity, Reconciliation ; Confrontation is normal and necessary ; Questions as answers ; Respect for rights and dignity ; Serious business ; Singing for Reconciliation ; Post Genocide Rwanda ; WACC discute sobre el tema de la reconciliación en diversas realidades ; Structured silences ; Technology and our re-formation ; Two communities are in conflict ; América Latina cuenta su historia de reconciliación y esperanza ; Grassroots responses to violence ; Language rights; ; Red de Redes comunicadoras analiza desafíos y estrategias futuras ; The Truth will set us free: Naim Ateek ; Power blocs: Rienzie Perera ; Rienzie Perera, Sri Lanka ; Truth Under Siege: War in Yugoslavia ; Change is Possible: Margaret Gallagher ; Sulak Sivaraksa
Barbara J. Fraser
In a homily in which he called "truthful communication ... an important element to prepare the way from confrontation to reconciliation," the Rev. Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), set the tone for the WACC Congress 2001.
Carol J. Fouke-Mpoyo
"Reconciliation" is the last word in the theme of the World Association for Christian Communication’s Congress 2001, meeting July 3-7 in the Netherlands.
Carol J. Fouke-Mpoyo
Confrontation is normal and necessary. The challenge is to deal with conflict constructively and not on the battlefield.
Jo-Ann Q. Maglipon
Judith Vidal-Hall, in a speech marked by often-brilliant prose, shows again how, in an examined life, the questions may prove more important than the answers.
Barbara J. Fraser
From the start of the Congress, keynote addresses were interspersed with testimony of community peace-building experiences from various parts of the world.
Jo-Ann Q. Maglipon
From the start, Anuradha Vittachi was told that television had no business being serious. Only two ideas, maximum, were to be made to fit into a half-hour documentary; anything more taxed the brain. Only what was fanciful was truly welcome, such as fantasy food and fantasy shows about castaways; anything more taxed the emotion.
Carol J. Fouke-Mpoyo
"Everywhere that people want reconciliation they start to sing," musician Per Harling of Sweden commented at the WACC Congress 2001 opening dinner as he led participants in exploring the Congress’ reconciliation theme – in song.
Carol J. Fouke-Mpoyo
For post-genocide Rwanda, "when you talk about reconciliation you are talking about reconstruction," said Aloisea Inyumba, Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda (NCUR).
Suecia Méndez
El tema de la reconciliación en Ruanda fue uno de los que más acaparó la atención a los participantes del 3er Congreso de la WACC durante la manana de hoy. El evento, que se celebra en Holanda y que se extenderá hasta el próximo dia 7 de julio, lleva por título Comunicación: De la Confrontación a la Reconciliación.
Jo-Ann Q. Maglipon
Ritu Menon, Indian writer and activist, spells out the many faces of censorship in her country that, to this day, attempt to silence women.