How do we defuse the perverse circle of mutual unfamiliarity and estrangement breeding difference, misrecognition, then resentment not just for the political initiative of ‘the other’ but for its very existence, then outward hostility and confrontation, then retaliation and consequently an ever increased estrangement? Resetdoc believes that political imagination and democratic forces need to be mobilized in order to break out of the trap of reciprocal rejection or misrecognition and the spiraling of negative feelings and to set a virtuous circle of understanding and trust across cultural, ideological and religious divides.