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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465620703321

Autore

Simpson Kirk

Titolo

Truth recovery in Northern Ireland [[electronic resource] ] : critically interpreting the past / / Kirk Simpson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009

ISBN

1-78170-304-3

1-84779-344-4

Edizione

[Online-ausg.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

EBL-Schweitzer

Disciplina

303.6909416

Soggetti

Peace-building - Northern Ireland

Truth commissions - Northern Ireland

Political violence - Northern Ireland

Electronic books.

Northern Ireland Politics and government 1969-1994

Northern Ireland Politics and government 1994-

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 (p. [143]-151) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of boxes; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The conflict in Northern Ireland A contextual and thematic analysis; 2 Truth commissions and dealing with the past; 3 Voices silenced, voices rediscovered Victims of violence and the reclamation of language in transitional societies; 4 Victims of political violence A Habermasian model of truth recovery; 5 Memorialisation in post-conflict societies Critically interpreting the past; 6 Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history - truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past - yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims' rights is particularly striking. This book analyses truth recovery as a fundamental aspect of the transition from political violence to peace, democracy and stability in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Kirk Simpson argues that it is essential for any process of truth



recovery in Northern Ireland to provide the victims of political violence with the opportunit.