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SUMMARY:How Wars End
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DESCRIPTION:How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Geno
	cide? Now that\npresident Trump has established a ‘Board of Peace\,’ in wh
	ich reconstruction\nappears to be approached primarily as a real-estate de
	al\, we examine the\npolitics of peace.\n\nLinda Kinstler (journalist for 
	The Economist and a scholar at Harvard\nUniversity) argues that in peace b
	uilding\, there should be space for ‘oblivion’\,\na collective process of 
	forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not\nto let people off
	 the hook\, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a\nmeaningful way. Be
	cause: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’\n\nHow have acts of oblivion helped 
	humankind move on since Roman times? What\, for\ninstance\, was ‘forgotten
	’ in post-Nazi Germany? Is oblivion still possible in a\ndigital age in wh
	ich everything is documented? And how is oblivion different\nfrom simply i
	gnoring the past and start building a ‘riviera of the Middle East’\,\nas T
	rump is intending?\n\nLinda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book 
	Come to This Court and Cry\,\nabout the Nazi trials. She has also publishe
	d in\, among others\, The Economist\,\nThe New York Times\, and The Guardi
	an.
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/how-wars-end
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	& democratie
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>How does a society move forward aft
	er atrocity? After war? Genocide? Now that president Trump has established
	 a ‘Board of Peace,’ in which reconstruction appears to be approached prim
	arily as a real-estate deal, we examine the politics of peace.</strong></p
	> <p>Linda Kinstler (journalist for <em>The Economist</em> and a scholar a
	t Harvard University) argues that in peace building, there should be space
	 for ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A pro
	cess of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowled
	ge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.
	’</p> <p>How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman ti
	mes? What, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? Is oblivion
	 still possible in a digital age in which everything is documented? And ho
	w is oblivion different from simply ignoring the past and start building a
	 <strong>‘</strong>riviera of the Middle East’, as Trump is intending?</p>
	 <p>Linda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book <em>Come to This C
	ourt and Cry</em>, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among
	 others, <em>The Economist</em>, <em>The New York Times</em>, and <em>The 
	Guardian</em>.</p>
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