The Mercy project began in Japan, inspired originally by Buddhist imagery of Avalokitishvara, or Kannon as he/she is called in Japan. The larger project has several components:
(1) political work on the legal, fiscal and institutional failings of the International Criminal Court (a project undertaken at an NEH Summer Seminar in 2001). I attach a brief note I wrote then about this work to my beloved colleague, the late Sally Ruddick. Politics of the International Criminal Court 2001.
Following on from this, the last chapter of my book, DangerousPeacemaking covers the issue in more general terms, framing Justice in the context of trying to secure an enduring peace.
(2) unfinished therefore unpublished reflections on Vietnam War amnesty/slavery and holocaust reparations/local reconciliation courts in Rwanda/ South Africa’s TRC/Chile and Argentina’s temporary amnesty
(3) the spiritual and aesthetic components of an association found in many religions, that sacred beings and events can deliver mercy. This work is well developed but again unfinished and therefore unpublished. I will return to it teaching at Evergreen Fall 2014.
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- Intercession for Mercy
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- Clementia sarcophagus — Roman
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- Kuanyin –Mercy in Buddhism
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- Ugandans on a March for Mercy
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- Suffering over triumph, WW II Olympia WA
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- General Grant’s Tomb
In 2009 I framed this project as a proposal (Mercy.generosityproject) to the Generosity Project at Notre Dame University. It was not funded.
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