Reconciliation
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Reconciliation may mean the following:
- Reconciliation may be seen as part of a process of a relationship gone wrong, typically as the result of one party causing a rift, by putting an end a relationship of enmity and by substituting for one of peace and good will. This may be the relationship between individuals or between nations or between and human beings.
- Reconciliation is a Roman Catholic sacrament in which a priest proclaims forgivness of confessed sin.
- Yom Kippur is a Jewish holiday, considered by Jews to be the holiest and most solemn day of the year; its central theme is atonement and reconciliation.
- The Southern Truth and Reconciliation group is formed by individuals in Atlanta, Georgia, to assist local communities in the South where racial violence had made racial separation a fact of daily life.
- Reconciliation is the process of healing cultural divisions between non-indigenous and indigenous Australians.
- Reconciliation in the rural vernaculum of certain Southern states of the USA can also refer to the process of removing the outer starchy layer that covers freshly harvested maize.
- Reconciliation is the probably the most well-known sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos. Originally created in 1977 for the faculty of peace studies at Bradford University and entitled Reunion, in 1995 (to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II) bronze casts of this sculpture were renamed Reconciliation and were placed in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral and in the Hiroshima Peace Park in Japan. An additional cast can be found on the grounds of Stormont Castle in Belfast. To mark the opening of the rebuilt German Reichstag (parliament building) in 1999, another cast was placed as part of the Berlin Wall memorial.
- Reconciliation is the technical name for a special parliamentary procedure used in the United States Congress, under which congressional committees adjust, or “reconcile,” existing tax or entitlement law with the new tax or entitlement spending targets called for in that year's congressional budget resolution.
[edit] See also
- Truth and reconciliation commission
- Conflict resolution research
- Conflict resolution, Dispute resolution
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