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(2017) The ethics of silence, Dordrecht, Springer.
World musician and humanitarian Samite Mulondo sees silence as an essential feature of communication. Whether he is working in refugee camps, in schools for former child soldiers, or in nursing homes for people with dementia, he often finds that silence expresses a lack of hope. In his work, he carefully manages silence in order to enhance communication and promote healing and peace. He sees his work of healing as a methodology of silence, specifically of attentive listening. For Samite, silence is integrally linked with both hope and hopelessness. In a noisy and violent world, it is often hard to hear hope. One way to deal with hopelessness is to use silence to help open a channel to healing, by giving people hope.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50382-0_10
Full citation:
Billias, N. , Vemuri, S. (2017). The healing qualities of silence (Uganda), in The ethics of silence, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 147-160.
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