What we can do differently in the face of such violence?
The violence in Christchurch offers a turning point in how societies come to terms with the willful slaughter of innocents. The attacker’s decision to live-stream the atrocity on social media platforms shows the devastating power of new media technologies, but it has been New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden’s response that has captured the world’s attention.
It has been widely commented that Jacinda’s emotional reaction transcended all political and cultural differences, offering genuine empathy for the victims.
Rather than seeing Jacinda’s response as a definitive solution, I think she is asking a more important question: what we can do differently in the face of such violence? In this regard, maybe we can take her response as an urgent and necessary call to have a more rigorous conversation that will allow us to ultimately break the cycle of violence.
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