ABSTRACT
Wayne Booth says that reconciliation is a word with abundant meanings, ranging from mending a severed friendship, to ending conflict, to balancing financial accounts. The greatest challenge for reconciliation that people face, and the greatest tragedy in the day, is when there is no relationship. How can we hope to achieve reconciliation, to bring together estranged parties, when such a gulf exists that they have no contact with each other at all? On the afternoon in 2000 before this chapter spokes to a symposium on reconciliation at Emory University, a press conference that presented a new concept for the Georgia flag, very proud of what the Georgia House of Representatives did that day. The universities are a special treasure. The chapter believes that this treasure can be a source of inspiration for those working on justice in their neighbourhoods and around the globe. The universities are a key component in achieving reconciliation.
