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Fr James Alison is a leading scholar in the thinking of Rene Girard, the groundbreaking French thinker whose insights have inspired Christian social engagement in conflict resolution and peace building. In this episode of Aletheia Dialogues with Witness Bearers Fr James explains Girard's thinking on Mimetic Rivalry and Scapegoating given the context of sustained retaliation against whistleblowers and other speakers of truth to power. Girard's insights may just prove to be the key to unlocking hope in the midst of escalating fear provoked by global geopolitical realignment in a post-truth, Trump/Putin power driven desire to remake human society in their own image.