Erin McFee is a U.K. Research and Innovation Future Leaders fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre in the London School of Economics and Political Science. There, she leads the project, Trust After Betrayal: Global Development Interventions in the Shadow of Organised Violence. McFee has conducted field work in Colombia since 2010 and extended this to Sinaloa, Mexico. She is a consultant for the U.N. International Organization for Migration. McFee is also working on her book, Trust After Betrayal: Society-Building After Mass Atrocity. Her research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays DDRA, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, and Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts.
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As the stakes of political confrontation have escalated, the issue of forgiveness is complicated. Should one ever hold the line rather than look for avenues of reconciliation,...