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Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice book cover

1st Edition

Reconciliation after War Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice

Edited By Rachel Kerr, Henry Redwood, James Gow Copyright 2021
362 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

362 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

362 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, peacebuilding and transitional justice. This book examines the considerable ambiguity and controversy... Read more

1. Introduction: A genealogy of reconciliation

Henry Redwood and Rachel Kerr

Part I: The Distant Past

2. Remembering What One Has Forgotten: Athenian Reconciliation After War (Crimes)

Robin Osborne

3. Jesuit Peace-Making in the Kingdom of Naples: Reconciliation in Early-Modern Europe

Stephen Cummins

4. Reconciliation and Oblivion in the English Republics

Imogen Peck

Part II: The Longue Durée

5. 1917 In 2017: A ‘Useless’ Past? Remembering and Forgetting the Bolshevik Revolution

Natasha Kuhrt

6. One Hundred Years of Reconciliation: Fractured Memories o the Finnish Civil War

Teemu Laulainen

7. The Paradox of Reconciliation: Early Post-War Chinese-Japanese Experience in Regional and Comparative Perspective

Daqing Yang

8. There Once Was A Country: The Construction and Deconstruction of Yugoslavia

Jelena Subotic

9. The Unreconciled US Civil War

James Gow and Rana Ibrahem

Part III: Alternative Perspectives

10. Religion and Reconciliation: Power, Practice and Rejections of the Truth and Reconciliation Project in South African and Bosnian Contexts

George R. Wilkes

11. Burying the Hatchet: Exploring Indigenous Practice of Reconciliation Among Pastoralist Communities in East Africa

Anne Kubai

12. If You Are Not Careful, Reconciliation Will Be Spreading All Over The Country’: Reconciliation in Britain’s Humanitarian Aid to Post-War Germany, 1919-1925

Ben Holmes

13. The Art of Healing and Reconciliation in Canada

Jonathan Dewar

Part IV: Challenging Conventional Wisdom

14. Reconciled to What? Community Relations and the Anti-Politics of Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Jonathan Evershed

15. Reconciliation Without Transitional Justice? The Challenges of Imposed Reconciliation in Spain

Rosa Ana Alija-Fernandez and Olga Martin-Ortega

16. Unhealed Wounds: The Limits of German Reconciliation in the Case of Distomo, Greece

Olga Burkhardt-Vetter

17. Reconciliation As An Ongoing Political Project: The Case of Japan

Madoka Futamura

18. Epilogue

Henry Redwood

Biography

Rachel Kerr is a Reader in International Relations and Contemporary War in the Department of War Studies and co-Director of the War Crimes Research Group at King’s College London, UK.

Henry Redwood is a Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK.

James Gow is Professor of International Peace and Security and Co-Director of the War Crimes Research Group at King’s College London, UK, and Non-Resident Scholar, Liechtenstein Institute, Princeton University, USA.

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