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Justice and Forgiveness (LDRS 612)

Term: 2021-2022 - SPRING

Faculty

Suzana Veiss

Suzana Dobrić Veiss, PhD

Email: suzana.veiss@uj.edu

Phone: 559-287-2352 (cell phone: text and call)

Office Hours: Available per appointment. 

About Me: Dr. Suzana Dobrić Veiss is a consultant providing services in the areas of organizational leadership, change, communication, and leadership development. She also teaches and serves as a Program Director and Assistant Professor of Strategic and Organizational Leadership in the School of Business at Fresno Pacific University and serves as an adjunct at University of Jamestown. Dr. Veiss holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University and was awarded Outstanding Graduate in the School of Business and Leadership. Dr. Veiss has served on the FPU board of trustees’ executive leadership team and on numerous non-profit organizations. Dr. Veiss presents workshops, consults, writes book chapters and articles, and speaks at conferences nationally and internationally. Her latest presentations at the International Leadership Association’s Annual Global Conference were titled: Finding your Feet: 10 Readiness Exercises in Overwhelming Change and Sensegiving During Change: A Guided Process. She lives in California with her husband Victor and three daughters. They love to travel to Europe to visit family in her homeland Croatia. Her joy is to see emerging leaders equipped with the tools necessary to accomplish the work God prepared in advance for them to do. 

Description

Completion of this course will involve: i) Understanding the nature of social justice (and injustice) with the inability to identify relevant practices across a range of cultural settings. ii) Comprehension of various forms of forgiveness (especially shallow vs. authentic forms), techniques for fostering forgiveness and its benefits. iii) Investigation of the role of memory (or lack thereof) in both justice and forgiveness, e.g. the role of memorials in preventing future injustice, the impossibility of forgiveness if injustice is forgotten or denied, etc.