Reconciliation Resources:

Articles and Documents:

• Forgiveness, Reconciliation and related Topics: An OmniSource Book, (PDF file) Compiled & Edited by José R. Nacu, M.S., May, 2007
  
  • It includes: 
    • a limited bibliography on reconciliation
    • nearly 100 titles with tables of contents
    • a list of audio tape titles, videos and magazines, website links
    • some ideas on the curricula offered by Universities and Institutes on Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and related topics
    • the definitions of some basic concepts can help you obtain immediate access.
      
• on this La Salette site (www.lasalette.org), search "reconciliation" on main page in upper menu; especially helpful is the article: Reconciliation: the La Salette Charism and How We Can Live It (PDF file)
  
• Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: a Handbook by IDEA: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (PFD file)
  
• Reconciliation by Charles (Chip) Hauss, Sept. 2003
  
• Reconciliation, Right & Wrong by Thanissaro Bhikkhu: the Buddhist perspective 
  
• The Meaning of Reconciliation by Hizkias Assefa: founder and co-ordinator of the African Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Network in Nairobi, Kenya)
• Fr. Pat's Place: About the Sacrament of Reconciliation: Fr. Pat Umberger, is pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Onalaska, WI
• Reconciliation: Theory and Practice for Development Cooperation (PDF file) by Karen Brounéus, Sept., 2003 for SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency): http://www.sida.se/?language=en_us This paper, commissioned by SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), aims both to enhance knowledge regarding the concept of reconciliation and to identify the role of development cooperation in reconciliation processes in societies after internal conflict. 

Documents from the Vatican:

• Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Reconciliation and Penance by Pope John Paul II
  
• Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past, International Theological Commission (Vatican), Dec. 1999

Blogs:

• Blogs about Peace and Reconciliation

About Truth and Reconciliation Commissions:

• What are Truth Commissions: A Knowledgebase Essay

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (specific countries):

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia
  
• Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
  
• Cuban National Reconciliation: Task Force on memory, Truth, and Justice (PDF file)
  
• Reconciliation Australia
  
• A Centre for Reconciliation: University of Notre Dame, Broome Campus, Kimberly, Australia: Established in 1994, it promotes the process of reconciliation between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of Australia. This campus, situated in the Kimberley in the remote northern region of Western Australia, acknowledges the traditional owners, The Yawuru people, upon whose land the University is situated.