A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholarpractitioners.When we open the newspaper watch and listen to the news or follow social media we are inundated with reports on old and fresh conflict zones around the world. Less apparent perhaps are the many attempts at bringing former adversaries together. Reconciliation in Global Context argues for the merit of reconciliation and for the need of global conversations around this topic. The contributing scholars and scholarpractitionerswho hail from the United States South Africa Ireland Israel Zimbabwe Germany Palestine Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia Switzerland and the Netherlandsdescribe and analyze examples of reconciliatory practices in different national and political environments. Drawing on direct experiences with reconciliation efforts from facilitating psychosocial intergroup workshops to critically evaluating official policies they also reflect on the personal motivations that guide them in this field of engagement. Arranged along an arc that spans from cases describing and interpreting actual processes with groups in conflict to cases in which the conceptual merits and constraints of reconciliation are brought to the fore the chapters ask hard questions but also argue for a relational approach to reconciliatory practices. For in the end what is important is to embrace a spirit of reconciliation that avoids selfinterested action and instead advances otherdirected care.This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatchedan initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at .