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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465355603321

Titolo

Forgiving and remembering in Northern Ireland : approaches to conflict resolution / / edited by Graham Spencer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-08927-0

9786613089274

1-4411-9031-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Disciplina

303.6909416

941.70824

Soggetti

Conflict management - Northern Ireland

Peace-building - Northern Ireland

Electronic books.

Northern Ireland Politics and government 1998-

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

Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction: Forgiving and Remembering in Northern Ireland; 1 Forgiving: A Doubting Thomas; 2 Reconnecting the Rhetoric and Reality of Forgiving and Remembering; 3 Home Before Dark; 4 Forgiving as Command and Process: The Problem of Destination over Journey; 5 Memory and Forgetting in a Contested Space; 6 Forgiving and Church Responsibility; 7 On Fire with the Justice of God: Re-Reading Romans as a Political Proclamation Towards a Desired Future; 8 Building Space: Regeneration and Reconciliation

9 Rewriting Our Stories: Narrative, Identity and Forgiveness10 Forgiveness Through Post-Traumatic Growth; 11 The Transformational Possibilities of Forgiveness; 12 Understanding Through Collaboration and Friendship: An Interview with Jo Berry and Patrick Magee; 13 Developing a Forgiving Spirit: A Personal Story; 14 The Possibility of Forgiveness: An Interview with Duncan Morrow; 15 The Struggle to Forgive; 16 The Release and Gift of Forgiving: An Interview with Richard Moore; Conclusion; List of Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

As Northern Ireland moves from conflict to tentative peace, ongoing violence and unrest underline that the province remains a turbulent and troubled society. This book brings together contributions from those directly affected by the Troubles who work for peace and reconciliation in their communities. The issues they raise are given poignancy and power by being grounded in human experience, and provide a necessary starting point for exploring the tensions which arise in the struggle to reconcile forgiveness and remembrance in order to create a more purposeful and meaningful future. They have i