THE OPTIMISTIC REALIST
 Michael Henderson and Ambassador Sahnoun interviewed about their books by Andrew Stallybrass at the Caux Forum for Human Security 2010 (Photo: Caux Photos) |
MICHAEL HENDERSON is a freelance journalist and the author of eleven books, including No Enemy To Conquer - Forgiveness in An Unforgiving World and See You After the Duration - the Story of British Evacuees to North America in World War II. He has been a TV presenter, a broadcaster and for more than fifty years worked for peace and understanding in some 25 countries. For his latest article click here >>
Ice in Every Carriage
Michael Henderson's latest book is now available. You can read the foreword by Rajmohan Gandhi here.
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Sofia Mitra-Thakur, in her "Review of the Week" on May 21 for the Eastern Eye, chose Ice in Every Carriage. Download review in PDF here >>
Recent reviews of No Enemy to Conquer in Religious Studies Review 2011, 'qualitative evidence that a mixture of courage and humility can infuse dialogic encounters with hope that persons of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds can forgive and reconcile rather than perpetuate violence.' and Interreligious Insight, 'Henderson's style in this richly personal book is fluent, accessible and immensely readable'. Read reviews here.
Andrew Rigby reviews No Enemy to Conquer in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, an influential quarterly publication in the field of peace and conflict studies, edited by Dr Robert Elias of the University of San Francisco. "... Michael Henderson is a wonderful storyteller." Read PDF of review here.
The Times' website, under its faith section, reports on the latest launch of Michael Henderson's book 'No Enemy to Conquer' at a Greencoat Forum in the London centre of Initiatives of Change. Under the headline 'Forgiveness is the key to bringing peace in Northern Ireland', Cheryl Gallagher reports Henderson's emphasis that 'forgiveness far from being just a personal or religious matter can affect the life of nations'. Click here to read the article.
TIKKUN, one of the leading Jewish magazines in the United States has a review by Roger S. Gottlieb (writing about No Enemy to Conquer): "changes are possible for us as human beings and have many times, against all expectation, actually occurred." To read the article click here.
An interview with Michael Henderson was published in The Jewish Week, widely recognized as the largest and most respected Jewish newspaper in America, on 15 September 2010 to mark Rosh Hashanah. "In No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World, British journalist Michael Henderson argues that apologizing and forgiving have a value on both a personal and political plane. The Jewish Week spoke last week to Henderson about the issue." Click here to read the article.
The Invitation: In the UK Islamic Community Magazine, Imam Dr Musharraf Hussain, a joint Chairman of the Christian-Muslim Forum of Britain writes "'This book represents a tour de force between victims and offenders and soul-stirring tales of human goodness." Read more here.
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