1.0 video <p><strong>How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Now that president Trump has established a ‘Board of Peace,’</strong> <strong>in which reconstruction appears to be approached primarily as a real-estate deal, we examine the politics of peace.</strong></p><p>Linda Kinstler (journalist for <i>The Economist</i> and a scholar at Harvard University) argues that in peace building, there should be space for ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’</p><p>How have acts of oblivion helped humankind move on since Roman times? What, for instance, was ‘forgotten’ in post-Nazi Germany? Is oblivion still possible in a digital age in which everything is documented? And how is oblivion different from simply ignoring the past and start building a <strong>‘</strong>riviera of the Middle East’, as Trump is intending?</p><p>Linda Kinstler made her debut in 2023 with her book <i>Come to This Court and Cry</i>, about the Nazi trials. She has also published in, among others, <i>The Economist</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, and <i>The Guardian</i>.</p><p>Speakers: Olaf Koens, Iva Vukušić and Ihab Saloul</p><p>Programme editor and moderator: Senna Felius</p><p>Supported by: Vfonds</p> https://vod.salto.nl/img/2026/09/28/custom_poster_5vn5v8LNzGbotgh5f.jpg 1280 720 1280 720 <iframe src="https://vod.salto.nl/embed/5JsVJ1EKPeoiokUqCo6EIk" width="1280" height="720" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Salto Player https://vod.salto.nl