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Carol Holmes
Autor de Humanity in the face of inhumanity
Sobre El Autor
Dr Carol Holmes is currently working in Western Australia with Steven Dale on a forensic research project for Australasia document examination, studying the links between narrative communication and handwriting
Obras de Carol Holmes
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 51
- Popularidad
- #311,767
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 11
Sue WIlliams, a Quaker from Northern Ireland, shares a series of stories about people showing remarkable humanity in conflict situations, drawn from her experience in international peacebuilding. Our reader was particularly affected by stories of the author’s experience with child soldiers in Africa, as well as the story of an older woman who finds a drunken, dangerous-looking intruder in her house–and proceeds to offer him tea and to listen to what he needs.
In each story, the person in crisis needs very simple things: tea, listening, a story. We can transform conflict by centering on human needs. Standing in our humanity in grief and vulnerability creates a safe space for healing, and becomes a form of discernment: lifting someone’s concern, being with our feelings, and speaking the truth until we move to a better place.… (más)