In an essay that Justin Welby wrote as archbishop of Canterbury in 2018 for the Encyclopædia Britannica Anniversary Edition: 250 Years of Excellence, he argued that achieving reconciliation may be a bigger challenge than achieving security. “One of the things that strikes me more and more in my involvement in reconciliation is that it almost doesn’t exist,” he explains. “By that I mean actual reconciliation: the letting go of memories of destruction—not forgetting, but letting go, disempowering them, overthrowing them in the hearts and minds of individuals and societies.”
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