Reconciliation(s) : transitional justice in postconflict societies / / edited by Joanna R. Quinn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823712303321
• Autore: Quinn Joanna R.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-86717-2; 9786612867170; 0-7735-7673-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Collana: Studies in nationalism and ethnic conflict ; ; 6
• Altri autori (Persone): QuinnJoanna R
• Disciplina: 323.4/9
• Soggetti: Crimes against humanity; Human rights; Justice, Administration of; Peace-building; Reconciliation - Political aspects; Restorative justice; Transitional justice
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Joanna R. Quinn -- Forgiveness as righteousness / Laurence Thomas -- Towards the healing of history: an exploration of the relation between pardon and peace / Nicholas Frayling -- Dialectic of acknowledgment / Trudy Govier -- Transitional justice in Morocco: lifting the veil on a hidden face / Veerle Opgenhaffen and Mark Freeman -- Traditional justice and legal pluralism in transitional context: The case of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts / Rosemary Nagy -- Truth and the challenge of reconciliation in Guatemala / Anita Isaacs -- Contact and culture: mechanisms of reconciliation in schools of North Ireland and Israel / Caitlin Donnelly and Joanne Hughes -- What reconciliation? Traditional mechanisms of acknowledgment in Uganda / Joanne R. Quinn -- Survey of reconciliation processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina : the gap between people and politics / Valery Perry -- Tensions between human rights and the politics of reconciliation : a South African case study / Stephanus Du Toit -- Interethnic ; reconciliation in Lebanon: after the Civil War / Samar El-Masri -- Beyond coexistence: Towards a working definition of reconciliation / Brandon Hamber and Graþinne Kelly.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Reconciliation(s)' considers the definition of the concept of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dialogue that arises from the attempts to situate reconciliation within a theoretical and analytical framework.