Altruism, Intergroup Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation Samuel P. Oliner

Altruism, Intergroup Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation

Author: Samuel P. Oliner

Publisher: Paragon House Publishers

Publication Date: 11 October, 2011

ISBN: 9781610830515

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Subjects: Psychology, Philosophy, Social science, Family and relationships

Available as: , Trade Paper, 978-1-55778-878-8 E-Book - Multiple Formats, 978-1-61083-051-5

Description:

This book focuses on intergroup apology and its outcome. Over one hundred apologies have been made recently by leaders or groups to those they have harmed. Altruism offers examples such as truth and reconciliation commissions and also the recent example of Polish-Ukrainian leaders offering mutual apologies for a massacre that both groups inflicted on one another. Using cases that show a positive outcome, this hopeful book provides empirical evidence that there is a positive relationship between altruism, apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation.