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The Order of Victimhood: Violence, Hierarchy and Building Peace in Northern Ireland

The Order of Victimhood: Violence, Hierarchy and Building Peace in Northern Ireland

Jankowitz, Sarah E.

Paperback

Series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise After Conflict

CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 3030074854
ISBN13: 9783030074852
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 19 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding. It locates its inquiry in Northern Ireland where highly politicized, unresolved narratives of violence and a so-called 'hierarchy of victims' illuminate inherent paradoxes of victimhood in intergroup conflict. The author critiques how mechanisms designed to address the legacy of conflict often reify exclusive 'victim' and 'perpetrator' identities and obscure complex harm. Adopting an interdisciplinary lens, the book examines how the image of the ideal victim interacts with intergroup processes in a polarizing and intractable victim-perpetrator paradigm. The analysis of these issues in Northern Ireland suggests that exclusive policies and mechanisms reinforce rather than repair societal divisions, and that inclusive, complex approaches to victimhood are necessary to build sustainable peace. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of peace studies, transitional justice and criminology.

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