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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213856003321

Titolo

Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century / / Birgit Schwelling (editor)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

3-8394-1931-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Collana

Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures ; 2

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

Apologizing - Social aspects

Collective memory

Reconciliation - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1  Contents    5  Transnational Civil Society's Contribution to Reconciliation    7  "A Question of Humanity in its Entirety"    25  Mea Culpas, Negotiations, Apologias    51  Soldiers' Reconciliation    97  "A Blessed Act of Oblivion"    115  Franco-German Rapprochement and Reconciliation in the Ecclesial Domain    143  A Right to Irreconcilability?    167  From Atonement to Peace?    201  Apologising for Colonial Violence    239  Facing Postcolonial Entanglement and the Challenge of Responsibility    277  Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry    315  From Truth to Reconciliation    339  About the Authors    369

Sommario/riassunto

How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to



oblivion.

»Der Sammelband [bietet] einen überzeugenden Einblick in Prozesse und Formen der ›transitional justice‹, die oft so gar nicht in das standardmäßige Repertoire auf diesem Gebiet passen wollen und unterstützt damit auch eine stärkere Berücksichtigung der lokalen und kulturellen Bezüge in Versuchen der Verarbeitung vergangener Verbrechen.«  Julia Kling, Südost-Forschungen, 73 (2014)    »Ein gelungener Sammelband, der mit der Breite seiner Beispiele das Verständnis von Versöhnungsprozessen jenseits nationaler Grenzen erweitert.«  Ilse Raaijmakers, H-Soz-u-Kult, 02.05.2013    Reviewed in:   Wissenschaft und Frieden, 1 (2013)  www.pw-portal.de, 25.06.2013, Björn Wagner