1st Edition
Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict Managing Violent Pasts
By Marie Breen Smyth
Copyright 2007
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
This book considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are increasingly used to unearth the acts committed by the various protagonists and to acknowledge the suffering of their victims. This book uniquely focuses on the conditions which predispose – or prevent – embarkation on a truth recovery process,... Read more
1. Introduction2. The Function of Truth Recovery in Transitional Societies 3. Truth and Cultures of Organised and Normalised Lying 4. Shame, Honour and Cultures of Violence and Peace 5. Victims, Healing, Forgiveness and Truth Case Study 6. Framing the Grievances of the Past: Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement 7. Readiness for Truth: The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Inquiry 8. Is Northern Ireland Ready for Truth?9. Conclusions: Truth Recovery and Post Conflict Reconstruction
Biography
Marie Breen Smyth is Reader in the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; and Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). She has edited five volumes and written a number of books, including Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs (with Mike Morrissey).
