In 2003, I was introduced to a man who had committed a double murder. He had recently been released from prison after serving a life sentence and was trying to readjust to a world very different from the one he'd left 15 years earlier. It was the first time I'd...

From the moment I first met Archbishop Desmond Tutu back in 2003, it was always my intention to one day ask him to give a lecture in London on behalf of The Forgiveness Project, an organization which he supports that explores forgiveness and reconciliation through the...

Last October, The Forgiveness Project - a UK-based charity which explores forgiveness and conflict resolution through the stories of real people - held a controversial event at The House of Commons in collaboration with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues. On the day after the...

In November 1993, Gitta Sereny, the distinguished biographer of Albert Speer, wrote in a British Sunday newspaper that the killers of two-year old Jamie Bulger, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, were still children and therefore had a chance of one day being...

A remarkable woman came into my office last year. As director of The Forgiveness Project -- a UK-based organization which explores forgiveness through real-life stories -- I have met a lot of remarkable people, but Susan's story touched me more than most. ("Susan" is not the woman's real...

In No Enemy to Conquer - a fascinating examination of forgiveness in an unforgiving world - the author, Michael Henderson, refers to the malicious rumors of 2007 which alleged that presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama had once attended a radical Muslim school in Indonesia.

Henderson's...

How do you save a relationship after countless betrayals? Can trust ever return? Should you forgive when forgiveness may simply encourage further bad behaviour?

These may well be some of the many questions that Elin Nordegren, the long-suffering wife of Tiger Woods, is contemplating having discovered her husband's multiple...

Itamar Shapira, former soldier in the Israeli army, refusenik and now member of the organization Combatants for Peace, looks uneasy from the moment I greet him. I have been to Tulkarm in the West Bank to talk with former Palestinian militants, and to Tel Aviv to meet former Israeli...

When Pat Magee walks into the House of Commons in London this week, some Members of Parliament will no doubt condemn the very notion of bringing the man who planned and planted the Brighton bomb into the heart of an institution he once tried to destroy.

The event,...

From the mass murderers of Auschwitz, to the Islamic extremists who flew their planes into the World Trade Center, the widespread belief is that those who do grave harm to others to fulfill their ideological purpose are fundamentally different from us. We use a special vocabulary for them: “beasts,” “monsters,”...

Those who hurt others have long been categorized into three distinct types -- the sad, the mad and the outright bad. Where would Phillip Garrido -- rapist, abductor, pedophile and possible murderer -- fit into this rogues gallery of perpetrators? His father's verdict that a motorbike accident and...