Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo Berry had her first conversation with the man responsible. She had made a long journey, 'walking the footsteps of the bombers' as she put it, determined not to give in to anger and revenge...
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Sixteen years after her father was killed by an IRA bomb, Jo Berry had her first conversation with the man responsible. She had made a long journey, 'walking the footsteps of the bombers' as she put it, determined not to give in to anger and revenge but to try to understand his motivations and perspective. Her preparedness to meet Pat Magee opened up a path to empathy that developed through their conversations over the following years. This book studies their growing understandings of each other by focusing on the rich networks of metaphors that appear in their conversations, and how these evo
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Transcription Conventions; Acknowledgments; 1 Coming Together: Background to the Conciliation Process; 2 The Discourse Dynamics Approach to Metaphor and Empathy; 3 Metaphor Analysis; 4 Conciliation as JOURNEYS OF UNDERSTANDING and LISTENING TO STORIES; 5 Metaphor Clusters and Absences; 6 CONNECTION and SEPARATION in Conciliation; 7 Becoming Involved in Violence; 8 The Impact of Violence; 9 Appropriating the Other's Metaphors; 10 Metaphor, Reconciliation and the Dynamics of Empathy; 11 Images of Empathy
Appendix: Using Metaphor in Reconciliation: Implications for MediatorsNotes; Bibliography; Index
