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Dr. Robert Enright
Robert Enright, Ph.D.
Brief bio - March 2026
Dr. Robert Enright holds the Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science within the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a licensed psychologist and founder of the International Forgiveness Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to disseminating knowledge about forgiveness and community renewal through forgiveness. He was the first to publish a scientific journal article on the topic of person-to-person forgiveness in 1989. For his innovative research on forgiveness, he received in 2022 what the American Psychological Association calls "psychology's highest awards," the APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology. For decades, he has focused on the importance of forgiveness within the human heart, families, faith communities, schools, workplaces, medical settings, shelters for those without homes, correctional institutions, and world conflict zones. His recent forgiveness education work with students has included the following countries: Greece, Iran, Israel, Liberia, Northern Ireland, and Taiwan. The International Forgiveness Institute (IFI), founded in 1994 by Dr. Robert Enright, is a leading resource for those seeking to understand how to find forgiveness and integrate it into their lives.
https://internationalforgiveness.com/
Introduction video
Here is a 24-minute introduction to forgiveness education that Dr. Robert Enright presented in Jerusalem in 2017 at an International Forgiveness Conference, Rising Above the Storm Clouds, held at the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center. This presentation also highlights valuable forgiveness resources aimed at promoting family healing.
Families for Forgiveness Education
We need to take the learning of forgiveness very seriously in our troubled world, so that adults are already schooled in the practice of this heroic and vital moral virtue. This is why we started Families for Forgiveness Education: to assist adults in families in passing on forgiveness to their children, and to equip them with the readiness to tackle the serious injustices they might face in adulthood. Such implementation of forgiveness in the home may bring added peace to the current family. Dr. Robert Enright.