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Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Agonism, Restitution & Repair

Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Agonism, Restitution & Repair

Hirsch, Alexander

Paperback

Series: Interventions

CriminologyGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 041571365X
ISBN13: 9780415713658
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 8 2013
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.10
Language: English

The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict.

This volume asks how many of the popular conclusions reached by transitional justice studies fall short, or worse, unwittingly perpetuate the very injustices they aim to suture. Though often well intentioned, these approaches generally resolve in an injunction to move on, as it were; to leave the painful past behind in the name of a conciliatory future. Through collective acts of apology and forgiveness, so the argument goes, reparation and restoration are imparted, and the writhing conflict of the past is substituted for by the overlapping consensus of community. And yet all too often, the authors of this study maintain, the work done in assuaging past discord serves to further debase and politically neutralize especially the victims of abuse in need of reconciliation and repair in the first place.

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