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""the white house"" tells the story of the possibilities of reconciliation in a universal culture saturated with images of war. It shows how it is possible, against all the odds, to bring together former enemies - survivors of a killing camp, and representatives of those who ordered and perpetrated the atrocities and killing. ""the white house"" shows how it is possible to dismantle nationalism. This book is a narrative. It starts with something ghastly and ends with a handshake. Over a thousand men and boys, mostly Muslim, were murdered and many more tortured in the killing camp in the Serb administered iron-ore mine of Omarska between May and August 1992 during the Bosnia War. Ten years after the war ended Mittal Steel bought the mine. Survivors and relatives of the victims demanded a memorial. The Serb administrators refused. The Soul of Europe was called in to mediate between Muslims and Serbs.This book tells the story of this process, talking to victims and perpetrators and achieving the first steps towards acknowledgement of crimes committed and agreement to cooperate on a memorial which is still to be built.

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Stunning. An extraordinary account of engagement with intractable and murderous hostilities, of the energy generated by hope. A thrilling narrative of those who learn to overcome the injuries done to them and those embittered beyond grief. Jeremy Seabrook, Guardian & BBC Journalist

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Peter Pelz is a director of The Soul of Europe, an organization which promotes collaboration between faiths and communities and which he established with Donald Reeves in 2000. He is also an artist and writer.DONALD REEVES: Author of several books including Church and State (Hodder 1981), Down To Earth (Mowbray 1996) and For God's Sake (Fount Paperbacks 1988), Donald Reeves is also a director of The Soul of Europe. After being ordained in 1963 he served as Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwark where he learnt about the problems for the church in an urban area and how important it was for a priest to understand what makes our cities work. He is a well known broadcaster, making a series of films for the BBC in 1989, Making Sense of Religion.

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