Bridging the Gap: Storytelling as a Way to Work Through Political and Collective Hostilities

Contents: Nitai Keren: Poem; Dan Bar-On: Preface; Wolf Schmidt: Peace Making by Storytelling; Dan Bar-On: Impossible Encounters: Descendants of Holocaust Victims Meet Descendants of Nazi Perpetrators; Samson Munn: "To Reflect and Trust" (TRT): Commitments and Aims of the Project; Joe Albeck: My Way to TRT: Personal Account; Martin Bormann: One Step After the Other: The TRT Sessions Between 1992 and 1998; Julie C. Goschalk: A Challenge to My World-View: Reflecting the Personal Processes During the TRT Work; Haim Maor: Lay the Tablet; Dan Bar-On: Finding Partners: Preparations of the Hamburg Seminar; Joe Albeck: Looking for Multipliers: First Researches in Israel and Palestine; Shifra Sagy: Being an Authentic Representative? Experiences with a Candidate's Interview; Samson Munn: Choosing Among Special People: The Northern Ireland Encounters; Deena Harris: Initial Contacts: One Week in South Africa; Dan Bar-On: The Hamburg Diary: A Brief and Personal Description of What We Went On During the Seminar; Sami Adwan: A Moment of Sharing Feelings; Fatma Kassem: A Step to Make My Dream Come True; Shifra Sagy: Myself in Society and Society in Myself; Deena Harris: Nowhere to Hide; Merle Friedman: I Struggle Even Now; George Lindeque: No Longer a Silent Bystander; Thuli Mpshe: The Power of Healing; Samson Munn: A Great Deal of Pressure; Maureen Hetherington: Deep Learning; Joseph Peake: The Aftermath of the Shoah; Ifat Maoz: Expectations, Results and Perspectives: The Evaluation Report; Susanne Kutz: Bridging the Gap: A Round-Table Discussion with Participants from Germany, Israel, Northern Ireland, Palestine and the USA; Dirk Wegner: The Weight of Words: Scenes and Memories of the Birth of an Unusual Book; Dan Bar-On: The Hamburg Experiment and Its Conclusions: A Summary; Appendix: -Literature -Vitae -Contact; The Körber Foundation; EUSTORY