{"id":14230,"date":"2011-09-05T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=14230"},"modified":"2011-09-02T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T20:37:57","slug":"fambul-tok-a-documentary-about-forgiveness-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/09\/fambul-tok-a-documentary-about-forgiveness-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fambul Tok, a Documentary about Forgiveness (trailer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone&#8217;s brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level &#8212; succeeding where the international community&#8217;s post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, this film explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals &#8212; and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Catalyst for Peace film produced and directed by Sara Terry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rQsBy7b1Prc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone&#8217;s brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level &#8212; succeeding where the international community&#8217;s post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, this film explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals &#8212; and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}