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Burying the past : making peace and doing justice after civil conflict / Nigel Biggar, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xi, 312 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0878408215
  • 9780878408214
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.64
LOC classification:
  • JC578. B49 2001
Contents:
List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose? -- 2. Where and When in Political Life is Justice Served by Forgiveness? -- 3. Politics and Forgiveness -- 4. The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues -- 5. Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions -- 6. National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 7. Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace Process -- 8. Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence -- 9. Passion, Constraint, Law, and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy -- 10. War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala -- 11. Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 12. Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition -- 13. Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the Past -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11 -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose? -- 2. Where and When in Political Life is Justice Served by Forgiveness? -- 3. Politics and Forgiveness -- 4. The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues -- 5. Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions -- 6. National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 7. Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace Process -- 8. Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence -- 9. Passion, Constraint, Law, and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy -- 10. War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala -- 11. Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 12. Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition -- 13. Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the Past -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11 -- Index.

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