Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment

Given the current climate of political division and global conflict it is not surprising that there has been anincreasing interest in how we ought to respond to perceived wrongdoing, both personal and political. Inthis volume, top scholars from around the world contribute all new original essays on the ethics offorgiveness, revenge, and punishment. This book draws on both historical and contemporary debates inorder to answer important questions about the nature of forgiveness, the power of apology, therelationship between punishment and revenge, the path to reconciliation, the morality of blame, and therole of forgiveness in political conflict. Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.