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  • Review and reflect on how the following content from our course relates to McCann's novel: (note, I have provided hints where these concepts appeared earlier in the course) Peace as a "conversation" (Lederach; Thucydides and The Melian Dialogue, A Time for Burning) Peace as "moral imagination" (Lederach - there are four aspects of moral imagination from the reading to include here) MI as the capacity to imagine ourselves in a web of relationships, one that includes even our enemies. MI is the ability to embrace complexity without getting caught up in a social schism. MI as a commitment to the creative act. MI is an acceptance of the risk that necessarily goes along with attempts to transcend violence. Peace is "reconciliation" and "forgiveness"
  • (Las Casas, As We Forgive, Martin Luther King Jr. Bishop Desmond Tutu's notion of Ubuntu) Peace is seeing the humanity of others (Las Casas, A Time for Burning, Martin Luther King Jr., Fr. Gregory Boyle & Homeboy Industries) Peace as "non-violence" and Satyagraha (Tolstoy and Gandhi) Peace as "love for one's enemy" (Martin Luther King Jr. vs. Malcolm X, Bishop Desmond Tutu's notion of Ubuntu) Peace as the work of activists and advocates (Eleanor Roosevelt and Peace Pilgrim, As We Forgive)

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The theme largely portrayed in the novel Apeirogon by Colum McCann is peace The peace has been subdivided into several subtopics that help understand whatever McCann was coming up with when writing th... View the full answer