Research Catalog

Title

Reconciliation(s) : transitional justice in postconflict societies / edited by Joanna R. Quinn.

Publication

Montréal ; Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Quinn, Joanna R.

Description

viii, 313 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

'Reconciliation(s)' considers the definition of the concept of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dialogue that arises from the attempts to situate reconciliation within a theoretical and analytical framework.

Series Statement

Studies in nationalism and ethnic conflict ; 6

Uniform Title

Studies in nationalism and ethnic conflict ; 6.

Alternative Title

• Reconciliations
• Reconciliation

Subject

• Reconciliation > Political aspects
• Justice, Administration of
• Restorative justice
• Human rights
• Crimes against humanity
• Peace-building
• Réconciliation > Aspect politique
• Justice > Administration
• Justice réparatrice
• Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
• Crimes contre l'humanité
• Consolidation de la paix
• Transitional justice
• Social Justice
• Human Rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Joanna R. Quinn -- Forgiveness as righteousness / Laurence Thomas -- Towards the healing of history: an exploration of the relation between pardon and peace / Nicholoas Frayling -- A dialectic of acknolwedgement / Trudy Govier -- Transitional justice in Morocco: lifting the veil on a hidden face / Veerle Opgenhaffen and Mark Freeman -- Traditional justic and legal pluralism in transitional context: The case of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts / Rosemary Nagy -- Truth and the challenge of reconciliation in Guatemala / Anita Isaacs -- Contact and culture: mechanisms of reconciliation in schools of North Ireland and Israel / Caitlin Donnelly and Joanne Hughes -- What reconciliation? Traditional mechanisms of acknowledgement in Uganda / Joanne R. Quinn -- A survey of reconciliation processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The gap between people and politics / Valery Perry -- Tensions between human rights and the politics of reconciliation: A South African case study / Stephanus Du Toit -- Interethnic reconciliation in Lebanon: after the Civil War / Samar El-Masri -- Beyond coexistence: Towards a working definition of reconciliation / Brandon Hamber and Gráinne Kelly.

ISBN

• 9780773534629 (bound)
• 0773534628 (bound)
• 9780773534636 (pbk.)
• 0773534636 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 275843411
• SCSB-10316904

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library