„Bildung zur Versöhnung?“

The event responds to complex contemporary challenges: acute forms of destruction, exploitation and violence against oneself, other people, non-human beings and planetary processes, increasing social polarisation and the questioning of rules-based multilateralism make a culture of reconciliation appear extremely urgent. At the same time, the concept of reconciliation itself is criticised: that it is all too often used as an instrument of power to ideologically legitimise existing forms of destruction, exploitation and disenfranchisement. The conference aims to contribute to a differentiated view. It is based on the conviction that the criticism outlined above must be taken extremely seriously - and that ideas and practices of reconciliation are nevertheless of great relevance: To abandon any understanding of reconciliation would be tantamount to relinquishing a perspective that points beyond identitarian tribal thinking, disenfranchisement and friend-enemy dichotomies. The planned conference will therefore address the challenge of how non-hegemonic reconciliation processes can be understood and cultivated.

Organisation:
Olivia Mitscherlich-Schönherr (Vechta) and Holger Zaborowski with Bettina Hollstein and Hartmut Rosa (Erfurt)

Please register at mwk.tagungsanmeldung@uni-erfurt.de.