Examining the applicability of the concepts of apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation to multi-stakeholder, collaborative problem-solving processes

Law and Contemporary Problems

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-198

  Miles, Jennifer Pratt ^a  

^a Meridian Institute   (United States)

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1. Additional information about Meridian Institute can be found at http://www.merid.org/
2. For purposes of this comment "apology" is "an admission of error... accompanied by an expression of regret," Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 58 (11th ed. 2005); "forgive" is "to give up resentment of or claim to requital for;... to cease to feel resentment against (an offender); [to] pardon," id. at 491; and "reconcile" is "to restore to friendship or harmony... [to] settle, resolve," id. at 1040.
3. Thomas Brudholm & Valérie Rosoux, The Unforgiving: Reflections on the Resistance to Forgiveness After Atrocity, 72 Law & Contemp. PROBS. 33 (Spring 2009).
4. See "reconcile," supra note 2
5. Watershed groups are groups of individuals with an interest in a shared drainage basin, including local landowners, conservation groups, industry, recreational users, local, state, and federal agencies, and other relevant parties
6. CAROL RAISH & ALICE M. MCSWEENEY, U.S. Dep't of Agric., Gen. Tech. RPT. Rmrsgtr-113, Economic, Social, and Cultural Aspects of Livestock Ranching on the Española and canjilon ranger Districts of the Santa fe and Carson National Forests: A Pilot Study 4 (2003), available at http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr113.pdf.
7. Id.; see also CHARLES L. BRIGGS & JOHN R. VAN NESS, Land, Water, and Culture 3 (1987) ("[B]oth individuals and groups of settlers were awarded Parcels of land.").
8. BRIGGS & VAN NESS, supra note 7, at 4
9. RAISH & MCSWEENEY, supra note 6, at 4-5
10. See, e.g., LESLEY POLING-KEMPES, Valley of Shining Stone 231-39 (1999) (describing the Alianza movement during the 1960s, which forcefully sought to reclaim ancestral properties in New Mexico).
11. WILLIAM BRIDGES, Managing Transitions, at x (1991)
12. Robert Mnookin & Alain Verbeke, Persistent Nonviolent Conflict with No Reconciliation: The Flemish and Walloons in Belgium, 72 Law & Contemp. Probs. 151 (Spring 2009).