1st Edition
Post-Conflict Transition in Lebanon The Disappeared of the Civil War
Introduction 1. Taif: between a peace agreement and a political project 2. Relatives of the disappeared, a communitas in liminality 3. The relationship between the state/regime and the communitas 4. The local external environment and the communitas 5. The communitas and the global discourse of human rights and transitional justice 6. The slide from global to local: mechanisms of liminality and unintended outcomes Conclusion - Looking beyond the transitory state: Lebanon three decades into the post-conflict
Biography
Lyna Comaty is a lecturer in Sociology, Development and Transitional Justice at the American University of Beirut and a social and political activist through various projects she leads with civil society organizations and political parties in Lebanon. Her research interests include political reform, peacebuilding, and development.
