"This book is an abridged version of Stephanie Goins, Forgiveness and Reintegration (Oxford: Regnum, 2015)"--Title page verso.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Forgiveness: a foundational concept -- Child soldiering, childhood and its implications -- Forgiveness language in the literature -- The fall of Athens and the civil war -- Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration -- Hearing forgiveness -- Seeing forgiveness -- Conditions favouring forgiveness -- Benefits of forgiveness -- Conclusion.

"During the ten years' civil war in Sierra Leone, children were both victims and perpetrators of horrendous crimes. Many of these former child soldiers sought reunification with their families and communities, whose openness to this was essential. Yet it was not just reunification, it was reintegration that they were after. The inherent complexities of this beg the question: Can practices of forgiveness serve the reintegration process? This mini-book, a summation of a larger body of work, explores the transformative possibilities of forgiveness and its power to reshape individuals and communities as they seek new futures together"--page 4 of cover.