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We usually find the books we need to read when outrage, grief, and cynicism are too constant companions. By turning to The Future of Prejudice, with the most recent ethnic post-presidential election violence in Kenya echoing the genocidal conflict in the Balkans and Rwanda, and the imminent launch of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, along with the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation in Quebec in the background, I was poignantly reminded that we are all, if not victims and victimizers, inescapably witnesses, both on and off the couch, to prejudice and prejudice-stoked intolerance and violence. That is both the sad and hopeful direction of this volume.
The Future of Prejudice collects the papers produced for the International Conference on Prejudice and Conflict in Salt Lake City in December 2005. It grew out of the “Unlearning Intolerance” seminars organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information in 2004, involving