Burying the past : making peace and doing justice after civil conflict / Nigel Biggar, editor. - xi, 312 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Restorative justice
Reconciliation
Civil war--Case studies

JC578. / B49 2001

303.64