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Christian Science Monitor: Ending Modern Wars Driven By Ancient Wrongs
"The stories we tell ourselves – our collective narratives – can be all too easily contorted under the right circumstances...They transform how we see ourselves, how we see others and what we choose not to see at all."
The National Post - Ideas
"When we impose our international criminal justice system onto such events, we are not bringing justice into the void, because a sense of injustice and victimhood, and the language and rhetoric of pursuing justice, were there all along."
Open Book Toronto - Interview
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"Looking back at other acts of mass violence, I started to see a disturbing common thread that I wanted to explore: the ways in which our notions of justice and injustice have been used to enable violence and hatred."
Illyria: A Story That Needs to Be Told
"If the history of mass violence has taught us anything, it’s that the ghosts of the past will take new forms."
OpenCanada: Telling Your Truth
"...What we seem invariably to miss — what the public, the media, and the academics so rarely look at — is what actually happens in the individual moments of these trials."
Blacklock's Reporter - Review
"Tell It To The World is a haunting and poignant and remarkable book. To read it is to gain some greater understanding of humanity."
Interview - The Current, CBC Radio
"We would all do well to pay attention to the ways in which people justify these acts to themselves, because all over the world right now, acts like this are still unfolding and people are using the same types of justifications."
Globe and Mail - The Stories Behind The Stories​
"The interaction I had with this witness is what made me realize I needed to write this book. When I started writing, much later, this was the first thing I sat down to write. It was also the last thing I finished."
Ottawa Citizen: The Pendulum Swing
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"Yet we seem, again, to have forgotten our history. Perhaps because these events seem not just far from our shores but far from our experience. Or because we make the mistake of thinking that the human psychology that led to these spiralling events is somehow different from our own. In both of these respects, we are mistaken."