Drawing on years of research by leading scholars, this informative book looks at the growing phenomenon of inter-group apology and international reconciliation and forgiveness between formerly opposed groups. In recent decades, more than one hundred apologies have been made by leaders or groups to those they have hurt. Altruism, Intergroup Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation focuses on these cases that show a positive outcome providing empirical evidence that there is a positive relationship between altruism, apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation ¿ and that there is hope that mankind can emerge from its violent past and embrace a wiser world.