Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name. If you were told that a murderer was to be released into
your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it weren't only one, but thousands? Could there be a common
roadmap to reconciliation? Could there be a shared future after unthinkable evil? If forgiveness is possible after
the slaughter of nearly a million in a hundred days in Rwanda, then today, more than ever, we owe it to humanity
to explore how one country is addressing perceptual, social-psychological, and spiritual dimensions to achieve
a more lasting peace. If forgiveness is possible after genocide, then perhaps there is hope for the comparably
smaller rifts that plague our relationships, our communities, and our nation. Based on personal interviews and
thorough research, As We Forgive returns to the boundary lines of genocide's wounds and traces the route of reconciliation
in the lives of Rwandans---victims, widows, orphans, and perpetrators---whose past and future intersect. We find
in these stories how suffering, memory, and identity set up roadblocks to forgiveness, while mediation, truth-telling,
restitution, and interdependence create bridges to healing. As We Forgive explores the pain, the mystery, and the
hope through seven compelling stories of those who have made this journey toward reconciliation. The result is
a narrative that breathes with humanity and is as haunting as it is hopeful.