2005
A Catholic priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
115 min
CLEAR ALL
You can achieve harmony, forgiveness, and well-being, overcome any obstacle, build constructive relationships, heal illness, assuage the deepest grief. If you can recover the capacity to love, you can do anything.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Knowing how to transform conflict is critical in both our personal and our professional lives. Yet, by and large, we are terrible at it. The reason, says longtime mediator Chad Ford, is fear. When conflict comes, our instincts are to run or fight.
It sounds simple, yet it’s more than a technique for resolving conflict. It’s a different way of understanding human motivation and behavior.
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Whether he’s working in a war-torn area or an inner-city slum, Rosenberg’s goal is the same: to teach and encourage compassionate communication.
Transforming Justice, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law is a forthcoming anthology compiled by the editor of The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).