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  • HISTORY, CREATIVE IMAGINATION, AND FORGIVENESS IN MEDIATION ON AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE: PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM PAUL RICOEUR'S HERMENEUTICS

  • Paul J. Zwier
  • Journal:
    Journal of Law and Religion / Volume 30 / Issue 2 / June 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 April 2015, pp. 194-228
    Print publication:
    June 2015

  • This article discusses Paul Ricoeur's moral philosophy as a tool for the mediation of international disputes. It argues that Ricoeur's hermeneutics provides a lens to examine how a mediator can use language to explore with representatives of the disputing parties a deeper sense of their histories as a pathway to creative imagination and problem solving. It shows how even, and perhaps especially, religious disputants can be led into a more profound sense of the complexity of their identity and history, in order to discover the sense of urgency and responsibility that opens disputants to imaginative steps toward peace and reconciliation.

    In addition the article discusses Ricoeur's clear-eyed view of forgiveness as an important correction to modern-day uses of truth and reconciliation commissions. With this better understanding of the meaning and conditions of forgiveness in hand peacemakers will be able to help disputants design processes that are necessary for a lasting and just peace.

    Finally it briefly discusses the challenges to applying Ricoeur's hermeneutics to international conflicts.

Principled Negotiation and Mediation in the International Arena
  • Talking with Evil
  • Paul J. Zwier
  • Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    22 April 2013
  • This book argues that it can be beneficial for the United States to talk with 'evil' - terrorists and other bad actors - if it engages a mediator who shares the United States' principles yet is pragmatic. It shows how the US can make better foreign policy decisions and demonstrate its integrity for promoting democracy and human rights, by employing a mediator who facilitates disputes between international actors by moving them along a continuum of principles, as political parties act for a country's citizens. This is the first book to integrate theories of rule of law development with conflict resolution methods, and it examines ongoing disputes in the Middle East, North Korea, South America and Africa. It draws on the author's experiences with The Carter Center and judicial and legal advocacy training to provide a sophisticated understanding of the current situation in these countries and of how a strategy of principled pragmatism will give better direction to US foreign policy abroad.