Hamilton, NY — – How do societies deal with the impulse for revenge’ How can individuals and communities best be helped to cope with the aftermath of national trauma’ Andrew Rigby, director of the Centre for the Study of Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Coventry University, will examine these questions in a lecture titled ‘Justice and Reconciliation: After the Violence’ on Tuesday, November 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall, at Colgate University.
Rigby, who has taught at Colgate, is the author of Justice and Reconciliation: After the Violence, The Legacy of the Past: The Problem of Collaborators and the Palestinian Case, Palestinian Education: The Future Challenge, Living the Intifada, and other books. His lecture is sponsored by Colgate’s departments of peace studies, sociology and anthropology, the Division of University Studies, the Center for Ethics and World Societies, and the offices of the dean and the president.
Colgate University, founded in 1819, is located in Hamilton, New York. A highly selective, independent, liberal arts college with 256 faculty members and 2,750 undergraduate men and women enrolled in programs that lead to the bachelor of arts, Colgate also offers a small graduate program. The university’s general education core curriculum embodies Colgate’s longstanding commitment to integrated learning. The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) recently designated Colgate as one of 16 Leadership Institutions that offer a national model for excellence in innovative education. Students currently enrolled at Colgate hail from 44 different states, 3 U.S. territories and 26 countries. Log on to www.colgate.edu to learn more about Colgate University.