[On restorative politics].
“It requires a fundamental and sustained politics of restoration that unleashes all the possible economic, practical and affective centrifugal forces to counter the corrosive effects of the disintegrative politics that has prevailed for so long.
But, as importantly, it also requires a special kind of love.”
“While love on its own leads us nowhere, a restorative politics is not complete without it being permeated by a deeply felt love, a love that can cross rather than erect cultural boundaries and that can heal rather than entrench divisions.
It is in this regard that…….restorative politics is so crucial.
At a time when politicians are moved by a soulless pragmatism that transforms even their demonstrations of affect into flat affectless pronouncements, it does provide a glimmer of hope that a politics that heals……….is possible.”
GHASSAN HAGE.