Includes bibliographical references.

For future from history. Reconciliation : the prerequisite for the future in Europe / Felix Unger -- On the duty to learn from history / Jože Trontelj -- Biblical foundations and education. Biblical foundations of reconciliation / Jože Krašovec -- Education for reconciliation on the example of conflict between Esau and Jacob / Stanko Gerjolj -- Babel from text to symbol : possibilities of reconciliation in the Hebrew Bible / Marcel V. Măcelaru -- Victims. Are victims necessary for the survival of mankind / Janez Juhant -- Why the concern for victims requires forgiveness : Girardian reflections on monotheism, violence and reconciliation / Wolfgang Palaver -- Is it possible to establish a new type of national reconciliation on the basis of the old "symbolic" victims? / Tadej Strehovec -- Philosophy and art. Reconciliation : a conceptual analysis / Bojan Žalec -- History and (in)justice : Levinas' advocacy of human singularity / Branko Klun -- Reconciliation, an act of courage and inner freedom / Anton Jamnik -- Forgiveness and reconciliation : from Joseph of Egypt to Shakespeare's Prospero and philosophical interpretations / Irena Avsenik Nabergoj -- Guilt, shame and reconciliation within the context of humanity / Vojko Strahovnik -- Can the media afford reconciliation? : reconciliation as a principle of a minimalistic ethics / Claudia Paganini -- Church, ministry and relational theology. Reconciliation in a world of exclusion : the possibility of a radical novelty "in Christ" / Corneliu Constantineanu -- Reconciliation and confession in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Wilhelm Guggenberger -- "Restraining power" against evil and "scarring over" of guilt : Bonhoefferian remarks on "penultimate" steps toward reconciliation / Gunter Prüller-Jagenteufel -- Reconciliation in church and society : church's ministry as God's reconciliation agency / Daniel G. Oprean -- Forgiveness allows a new creation / Mari Jože Osredkar -- Religion, culture, history and society. Jesus : neither a hand of reconciliation nor an apple of discord between Christians and Muslims / Drago K. Ocvirk -- Reconciliation as a basis of establishing political communities : Athens after the thirty tyrants : Central Europe after its pocket-tyrants / Béla Mester -- Recollection, forgetting, reconciliation : the Hungarian case / Gábor Kovács -- Slovenia and the criminal burden of Titoism / Jože Dežman -- Independent Slovenia and concealed mass graves / Mitja Ferenc -- Urban development, grassroots authoritarianism and the problem of reconciliation in post-Soviet Russia / Mark Kleyman -- The meaning of culture for reconciliation : dialogue, memory and community / Igor Bahovec -- Trauma and divorce. Healing the trauma of postwar killings in Slovenia / Katarina Kompan Erzar & Tomaž Erzar -- The horizons of reconciliation after traumatic experience / Barbara Simonič -- Civil suits for divorce / Stanislav Slatinek.

The book considers reconciliation from various points of view: biblical foundations of reconciliation, philosophical aspects, Girardian and Bonhoefferian reflections on reconciliation, intellectual and (post)totalitarian history, psychotherapeutic approaches . The authors consider reconciliation also in very concrete (historical) contexts (Hungary, Russia, Slovenia, Islam and Christianity). Despite some disagreements, their common message is clear: human history and present times are covered with blood, suffering (of innocent victims) and negative emotions. Hence the only acceptable way is cultivation of the culture of reconciliation.