Dilemmas of reconciliation
Subtitle: cases and concepts
By: edited by Carol A.L. Prager and Trudy Govier
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780889204157
Subjects: Reconciliation; Moral and ethical aspects; International relations; Réconciliation; Versöhnung; Aspect moral; Political ethics; Morale politique; Relations internationales; Menschenrechtsverletzung
Description: "Dilemmas of Reconciliation is a pioneering effort that explores the extraordinary challenges that must be faced in the aftermath of genocide or barbarous civil wars. How these challenges of reconciliation are faced and resolved will affect not only the victims' ability to go on with their lives but will impact regional stability and, ultimately, world peace."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reckoning with past wrongs : a normative framework  -- David A. Crocker; title: What is acknowledgement and why is it important?  -- Trudy Govier; title: Reconciliation for realists  -- Susan Dwyer; title: Crime as interpersonal conflict : reconciliation between victim and offender  -- Marc Forget; title: Mass rape and the concept of international crime  -- Larry May; title: What can others do? Foreign governments and the politics of peacebuilding  -- Tom Keating; title: Aspects of understanding and judging mass human rights abuses  -- Carol A.L. Prager; title: We are all treaty people : History, reconciliation, and the 'settler problem'  -- Roger Epp; title: Toward a response to criticism of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission  -- Wilhelm Verwoerd; title: Reimagining Guatemala : reconciliation and the indigenous accords  -- Jim Handy; title: Coming to terms with the terror and history of Pol Pot's Cambodia (1975-79)  -- David Chandler; title: National reconciliation in Russia?  -- Janet Keeping; title: What we have learned -- Justice Richard J. Gladstone.