The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
Dec 13th, 2007 by Jill
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
Every so often I pick up a book and it transforms my life. What was it Kafka said about books? “A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.” This book did that for me.
If I could only recommend one book about building a better mom-stepmom relationship, it would be this one. And it’s not even about stepfamilies. It’s written in a fiction format (which makes the ideas easy to absorb), and it’s set in a wilderness camp for troubled teenagers run jointly by a Palestinian Arab and an Israeli Jew. It’s about how to build an active, sustainable peace between real people with real, different needs and perspectives. It’s about helping things go right. It’s about becoming aware of the things we do that help things go wrong.
This book made me cry and cry and cry. And it helped me resurface into happiness.
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