Reconciliation in Practice: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Author: Ranjan DATTA
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781773631707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ranjan DATTA
Publisher:
Published: 2019-11
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781773631707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ranjan Datta
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Published: 2019-11-13T00:00:00Z
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1773631713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report designed to facilitate reconciliation between the Canadian state and Indigenous Peoples. Its call to honour treaty relationships reminds us that we are all treaty people — including immigrants and refugees living in Canada. The contributors to this volume, many of whom are themselves immigrants and refugees, take up the challenge of imagining what it means for immigrants and refugees to live as treaty people. Through essays, personal reflections and poetry, the authors explore what reconciliation is and what it means to live in relationship with Indigenous Peoples. Speaking from their personal experience — whether from the education and health care systems, through research and a community garden, or from experiences of discrimination and marginalization — contributors share their stories of what reconciliation means in practice. They write about building respectful relationships with Indigenous Peoples, respecting Indigenous Treaties, decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting, learning the role of colonized education processes, protecting our land and environment, creating food security and creating an intercultural space for social interactions. Perhaps most importantly, Reconciliation in Practice reminds us that reconciliation is an ongoing process, not an event, and that decolonizing our relationships and building new ones based on understanding and respect is empowering for all of us — Indigenous, settler, immigrant and refugee alike.
Author: Cleo Fleming
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 135191264X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reconciliation: what makes it possible, what impedes it, how to foster and promote it and how to build the social conditions in which it can flourish? These are pressing questions for an increasingly significant concept in community and international relations. This book is a creative engagement with the central terms of reconciliation - forgiveness, nationhood, conflict resolution, justice and memory - and with approaches to questions of listening and understanding the 'other'. It is premised on the view that an essential pathway to the achievement of reconciliation lies in developing and disseminating critical concepts that capture the nuances of practice. Drawing on fields in the social sciences and humanities, including post structuralism, hermeneutics, subaltern studies and social theory, and elaborated in relation to contemporary sites of conflict and peace-making, this collection brings together a unique range of perspectives on the complex issue of reconciliation while offering responses to the key questions being asked of it today.
Author: Ranjan Datta
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Published: 2023-11-30
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1773383809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Decolonization in Practice speaks to the practical work of dismantling colonial ideologies and features contributions from Indigenous, Black, racialized immigrant, refugee, and ally scholars, researchers, and practitioners who share their experiences enacting decolonizing work in their communities. Each chapter presents stories of inspiration, resistance, unlearning, relearning, and transformation on the journey towards reconciliation. This edited collection asks, “How do we understand anti-racist practice as a framework for reconciliation?” “How can we identify areas of obstacle and opportunity?” and “How can we take responsibility for decolonizing our ways of knowing and acting?” These questions are asked in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s assertion that meaningful engagement among Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous people will be key in advancing reconciliation through anti-racist solidarity. Contributors share personal decolonial stories and explore taking responsibility for building a decolonial community from and within everyday practice for transforming our learning into action to achieve social and environmental justice goals. This unique collection serves a variety of courses, including as a primary text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Canada focused on decolonization, as a supplementary text for introductory-level courses in Canada that are incorporating discussions of decolonization, and as a primary or supplementary text for international courses.
Author: Bruce Bradshaw
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0801022894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Points out the necessity of changing [cultural] narratives if real values-transformation is to take place. This is an important work." --Peter Riddell, London Bible College
Author: Geneva Athena Cloutis
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released a report highlighting the impacts of residential schools on Indigenous people, and presented Calls to Action to redress this legacy and move forward on a path of reconciliation. Two years later, in 2017, the Haida Gwaii Institute (HGI) launched the Haida Gwaii Semester in Reconciliation Studies. Since 2010, the HGI has been offering educational programming on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Haida Nation. This research is the result of a three year partnership with the HGI as they piloted and evaluated the Reconciliation Studies Semester (RSS). This work has been guided by the tenets of community-based participatory research (CBPR), which prioritizes relationships as the basis for meaningful research between communities and researchers (Leeuw, Cameron, & Greenwood, 2012). My relationship with the HGI has been fundamental in exploring the RSS and evaluating its strengths and challenges. In this work, the HGI expressed a desire to evaluate the RSS based on the challenges encountered during the program pilot that were not predicted when the program was developed in 2015. I sought to explore the application of social innovation tools for the purposes of program evaluation through document reviews, discussions, participant observation, and five separate visits to Haida Gwaii. I first developed a conceptual framework of best practice, which can theoretically be applied to any organization undertaking transformative education and program evaluation in cross-cultural, complex environments. This framework was developed by exploring four main bodies of literature: systems change and social innovation, transformative learning, critical Indigenous literature, and program evaluation. This framework was applied to the RSS initially without any context, to strictly compare the program to these best practice criteria. Then, I used a multi-level perspective framework to explore niche, regime, and landscape activities which took place between 2015 and 2018 and may have impacted the program (McGowan, Westley, & Tjornbo, 2017). These activities were then overlaid onto the best practice criteria to contextualize the strengths and challenges faced by the HGI when developing and piloting the program. Through this analysis, I determined that the RSS as a program sought to include a variety of perspectives from the Haida and Haida Gwaii communities, and utilized the concepts of Two-Eyed Seeing in the program. Two-Eyed Seeing allows Indigenous and Western epistemologies and pedagogies to be integrated and taught in the classroom without being juxtaposed or compared to one another (Iwama, Marshall, Marshall, & Bartlett, 2009). The most significant challenge faced by the RSS was developing a program evaluation, which they were unable to create simultaneously with curriculum due to capacity and expertise constraints. Finally, the national-level discussions on reconciliation fluctuated widely during this time period, which may have influenced student perception and experience (Laucius, 2017; Liberal Party of Canada, 2015). The findings emphasize the importance of building flexibility into program design, co-developing evaluation and program content, and including local perspectives to contextualize and ground the program in place. As the HGI moves forward, the lessons learned from the RSS will improve programming for the organization and can be used as a template for reconciliation-based education in the future.
Author: John S Shalett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-23
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317721063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families prepares you for the ways that cultural realities can affect your social work practice with both couples and families. You will gain in-depth exposure to a variety of cultural values and perspectives and learn to identify similarities and differences between and among different ethnic families. This will lead you to a deeper, more thorough understanding of the roles, dynamics, and particular challenges of social work, both current and historical. From Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families, you will learn how to use the religious history, family values, rituals, and community in attaining positive outcomes in treatment. Placing value on diversity in families, supporting ethnic differences, and recognizing the strength and resiliency of modern-day families will become the cornerstones of your more effective and sensitive social work practice. The authors, who come with firsthand experience, provide you with specific models and approaches for working with families and couples of different backgrounds. They also offer you insight on: treatment implications for interracial couples the components of healthy marriages domestic violence from various cultural perspectives the Native American family circle cross-cultural considerations in family preservation the realities of racism in the worker-client relationship Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families is an excellent resource for graduate students, faculty, and practitioners alike! When ideas and interventions become more complex, the authors guide you through them step-by-step to make implementation easy and practical. Nowhere else will you find such a reader-friendly form that makes the role of culture in therapy and its influence on structure, communication, dynamics, process, and interventions within couple and family systems so astonishingly clear!
Author: Renée Jeffery
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-01-06
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1137596953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the practice of transitional justice in the Solomon Islands from the period of the ‘The Tensions’ to the present. In late 1998, the Solomon Islands were plunged into a period of violent civil conflict precipitated by a complex web of grievances, injustices, ethnic tensions, and economic insecurities. This conflict dragged on until the middle of 2003, leaving an estimated 200 people dead and more than 20 000 displaced from their homes. In the time that has elapsed since the end of The Tensions, numerous—at times incompatible—approaches to transitional justice have been implemented in the Solomon Islands. The contributors to this volume examine how key global trends and debates about transitional justice were played out in the Solomon Islands, how its key mechanisms were adapted to meet the specific demands of post-conflict justice in this local context, and how well its practices and processes fulfilled their perceived functions.
Author: Lydia F. Johnson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-05-09
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 161097011X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling. It traverses the broad terrain of cultural analysis and also explores in depth a number of discrete cross-cultural issues in pastoral counseling, related to communication, conflict, empathy, family dynamics, suffering, and healing. Cultural analysis and theological reflection are situated alongside numerous case studies of persons and situations that enflesh the concepts being discussed, and readers are invited to engage personally with the material through a variety of focus questions and reflective exercises. This book can serve as a helpful textbook for seminarians and a useful guide for pastors and priests, church study groups, multicultural parishes, and anyone engaged in helping ministries with persons from other cultures. The goal is to develop culturally competent pastoral caregivers by providing a comprehensive and practical overview of the generative themes and challenges in cross-cultural pastoral care.