Moral Injury as a Precondition for Reconciliation: An Anthropology of Veterans’ Lives and Peacemaking
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. How Should We Perceive Moral Injury?
3. Starting with the Informed Insider
3.1. Veterans of the Yugoslav Wars
I was part of the machine. I stopped thinking about everything, stopped thinking about what I was doing, because I couldn’t. I was just doing what I was told. I was 18. I thought I was doing my part. I felt as if I had to. But in the war, I just wanted to save my life. … Our leaders led us into going to war. When it began again, they said we needed to fight again. I said ‘no’.(see Kiper 2019)
My advice, especially for young people, is that we need to forgive each other. We were attacked here but that doesn’t change the importance of living in good relations with our neighbors. Life goes on and what happened, happened. Today is a new day … For there to be peace, you need to care for all of your neighbors, even more than your brother (7 December 2015).
To end the hostilities, for our children, we must reconcile—all veterans of the former Yugoslav republics. Veterans must now fight for peace. We have seen what war does. We still feel it in our skin. And we know that we must dissolve the centuries of hatreds, or politicians will continue to spread them. Politicians don’t want to see reconciliation or peace. They want war because it keeps them in power. No one knows that better than a veteran. That is why all veterans need to fight together for peace (15 April 2016).
3.2. Veterans of the Vietnam War
To heal you must first forgive … we veterans [must] lead the way to a new era of cooperation and peace … the problem has been when we try to sublimate [moral injury] or forget it. We have to deal with it. If the people who fought the war, who faced each other across the jungle or in combat, can get beyond that, then everyone else certainly can.
… deeply held beliefs spark a question [after war] for re-establishing meaning, reformulating shattered beliefs about goodness and one’s worth, and seeking forgiveness from self and others, which is what may ultimately facilitate growth.
I have seen American veterans encounter North Vietnamese, Viet Cong or South Vietnamese veterans for the first time, and weep in their arms as they tell us, “It’s over, it was a long time ago. It was a tragedy and mistake by the U.S. government, but you did not make those decisions. It’s not your fault. Today we are friends, brothers”.(see Searcy 2021)
4. Toward a Moral Anthropology of Veteran Healing
5. Transformations in the Religious Existential Philosophy of Thomas Merton
5.1. The Need for Renewal, Mindfulness, and Intuitive Love
5.2. The Critical Importance of Contemplative Practices
5.3. Experiencing the Transformative Power of Ultimate Reality
5.4. Engaging in Extraordinary and Everyday Peacemaking
For Merton, healing comes with a sense of moral worth, but we cannot achieve that until we turn off the voice of judgment in our false self and follow the true self’s need to connect with others. Hence, the culmination of moral authenticity and spiritual restoration—for the mystic, the spiritual seeker, and the spiritually wounded alike—is one and the same: to love and through love manifest the holy experience of peacefulness (Merton 1968).Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and thus love itself with render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.(as cited by Hand 2005, p. 180)
6. Implications for Moral Anthropology and the Anthropology of Peace
7. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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