In a world where conflict and revenge grabs all the headlines The Forgiveness Project tells the stories of people whose lives have been shattered by violence, tragedy and injustice and who are learning to forgive and move on.
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Stories of forgiveness
The Forgiveness Project was recently featured on Oprah. Read all about Forgiveness in action on Oprah.com.
The project and narrative exhibition is the brainchild of journalist Marina Cantacuzino and photographer Brian Moody who have collected numerous accounts from the UK, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Romania, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine. The accounts featured in the exhibition include Berth and Francis Climbié, parents of 7-year old Victoria Climbie who was abused and murdered by her aunt; Marian Partington, whose sister was murdered by Frederick West; former loyalist paramilitary Alistair Little; Pat Magee the man behind the IRA Brighton bomb in 1984 alongside Jo Berry, the daughter of Sir Anthony Berry who was killed in the blast; and Denise Green, whose son's organs were retained in the Alder Hey scandal.
The exhibition produced by The Forgiveness Project shows individuals and communities can learn to overcome difference and division to achieve social cohesion. The Forgiveness Project believes that by listening to the voices of people who have experienced reconciliation and renewal after trauma and unrest, it is possible to see alternatives to endless cycles of conflict, violence, crime and injustice. The remarkable stories in the project's exhibition called THE F WORD: Images of Forgiveness, aim to do just this.
SUPPORT for The Forgiveness Project
"Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what has happened seriously and not minimising it; drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens to poison our entire existence. In these forgiveness stories there is real healing."
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Forgiveness for me is as mysterious as love. I’ve never understood how people who experience pain through violence can see any light, or any freedom from the obsession of why or how? I’ve never really believed that I would forgive, but then nor have I ever really understood the cage which anger locks you into. And then you come to this exhibition – see and read these stories – and you realise that there is light at the end of the tunnel. The people featured here are the real forerunners, showing many of us the way. They are saying this is amnesty and this is mercy. Few things are more relevant today than forgiveness and kindness. This exhibition is truly an education of the human spirit."
- Dame Anita Roddick
"I think forgiveness is a radical concept: not easy but potentially miraculous."
- Annie Lennox, singer, songwriter and activist
"I have spent time with people in Chile and Argentina whose families were murdered and tortured during the troubled histories of these countries. I have never heard a single one desire revenge. There is no more important undertaking than forgiveness. Without it we continue in cycles of destruction and violence. It is the most powerful weapon we have against terrorism and atrocity."
- Emma Thompson, actress
"I give my wholehearted support to this project. How wonderful it is that there is a need and a working towards something positive, peaceful, regenerative – a great inspiration."
- Dame Helen Mirren, actress
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