Reconciliation in Global Context : Why It Is Needed and How It Works.
A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | SUNY Press Open Access Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Social and Political Reconciliation
- Reconciliation as a Concept
- A Polysemic Phenomenon
- Political and Social Reconciliation
- Emotional (Memory) Work
- Structure of This Book
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 1 Interpersonal Reconciliation with Groups in Conflict Israelis and Palestinians, Germans and Jews
- Biographical Interlude
- Trauma and Trust: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Chosen Traumas
- "I was afraid you arrange for our kidnapping"
- Unsettling Empathy
- Memory and Fear: On German Family History
- Frauengeschichte: A Woman's Family Constellation
- "The truth almost drove me mad"
- Outlook
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 2 Beyond a Dilemma of Apology Transforming (Veteran) Resistance to Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and South Africa
- Practical Wisdom of "Veteran Reconcilers"
- We Were Right
- We Were Not Always Right
- We Were Right Then, but Now?
- We Were Wrong, but We Are Not Bad
- Journeying through "We Were Right"
- Acknowledging Their Suffering: Between Apology and Indifference/Justification/Denial
- I'm Sorry, but We Were Right
- Compassion without Confession
- On Tragic Choices and Moral Dilemmas
- Concluding Remarks: Transforming Resistance to Reconciliation
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 3 Societal Reconciliation through Psychosocial Methods The Case of Zimbabwe
- Violence in Zimbabwe: 1980 to the Present
- Psychological Consequences of Violence and Societal Reconciliation
- Freire's Philosophy of Critical Consciousness and the Training for Transformation Methodology
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Chapter 4 Bringing Faith into the Practice of Peace Paths to Reconciliation of Bosnian Muslims
- Religiosity and Secularism in BiH
- Faith-Based Activism in BiH's Postwar Civil Society
- Bosnian Muslim Peacebuilding.
- Faith in Practice: Religious Peacebuilding Techniques and Methods
- Using and Adapting Existing Religious and Cultural Rituals to Traditional Ways (3)
- Using Religion in Debate and Finding Common Ground (4)
- Peace Education as a Foundation for Transforming Conflict and Building Peace Within and Between Religious Believers and Communities (5)
- Religious Peacemaking through Communication Skills (6)
- Interfaith Mobilization for Peace (8)
- Awakening the Global Community (9)
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 5 Reconciliation in the Midst of Strife Palestine
- Defining Reconciliation
- Why Reconciliation?
- A Personal Perspective
- The Hölderlin Perspective : Reconciliation in the Midst of Conflict
- Fear, Trust, and Reconciliation
- Concluding Remarks
- Works Cited
- Chapter 6 No Future without a Shared Ethos Reconciling Palestinian and Israeli Identities
- The Challenge of Changing an Ethos
- Reconciliation as Recognition and Demand
- A Shared Ethos for Palestinians and Israelis: Preliminary Guidelines
- Land
- Trauma
- Violence
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Chapter 7 When Reconciliation Becomes the R-Word Dealing with the Past in Former Yugoslavia
- The European Union and the Franco-German Model
- Reconciliation and Conditionality
- Srebrenica and Symbolic Politics
- Reconciliation without Recognition
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Epilogue Memory versus Reconciliation
- Reflective Analysis
- Creative Analysis
- Reconciliation: How to Start and How to End?
- Memoria Post-Bellum
- What If Reconciliation Is Not on the Agenda?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index.