Foundation
Reconciliation in South East Europe
Healing of Memories (HoM)
Bridge between Churches, Cultures and Religions Ecumenical and Interreligious Process of the religious, cultural, political and ethnic bases and interdependences
in religious-cultural border areas between East and West European cultures and religions 
The way of reconciliation is the readiness to forgive and the disposition to accept forgiveness. The precondition for this is a sensible reappraisal of "deep historical streams that feed sentiments, attitudes and reactions, which can therefore influence the situations and developments”. Such “deep historical streams” shape the identity of nations and regions. For a longer period they – unconsciously – provide “the samples and patterns for memories and attitudes, by which recent experiences are interpreted and classified.”
The Foundation “Reconciliation in South East Europe” (RSEE) is working in the Spirit of the Charta Oecumenica. The European common ecumenical dialog shall be picked up with the goal to overcome the injuries and misunderstandings between majority and minority cultures and religions originated over centuries especially in the cultural "border areas" of Western and Eastern Europe.
Healing Memories is a process of the generations that includes:
Partial process A: walking together through history -
Partial process B: taking share in the pain of others
Partial process C: preparing the future together
The Foundation promotes
processes of “Healing of Memories” (HoM) in South East Europe as a border
region between the historical East-Roman and West-Roman religious and culture
history as well as the widely unknown South-East European culture and religious
traditions.
“Main aims of the foundation are, to advance:
- reconciliation
processes between churches, cultures and religions.
- the
intercultural and interreligious dialogue in South-East Europe and so to counter
the estrangements between Western and Eastern European culture.”
(abridgement
from the Foundation’s ordinance §3 and 4)
The Foundation therewith continues a basic request
of the Third European Ecumenical Assembly: to make a contribution to the
reconciliation of the peoples of Europe.
One special tensions-area between cultures and religions in Europe is to recognise that the East Board of the European Union (EU) is in overview to identify as the 1000 years old board between the historical West Europe and East Europe. It needs deep sensitiveness and reappraisal of deep historical streams and feeding sentiments, attitudes and reactions to accept and respect the different identity of cultures, religions, nations and regions. |
