making peace and doing justice after civil conflict Biggar, Nigel 1955- editor text bibliography dcu Washington, D.C Georgetown University Press c2003 2003 Expanded and updated. monographic eng

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xvii, 350 pages ; 23 cm. This work asks "How do newly democratic nations put to rest the conflicts of the past?" Beginning with an examination of reconciliation on the political and psychological level, it covers the quality of peace as it has been forged in the civil conflicts in Rwanda, South Africa, Chile and Guatemala. Introduction Part One: Concepts 1. Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose?Nigel Biggar 2. Where and When in Political Life Is Justice Served by Forgiveness?Donald W. Shriver 3. Politics and ForgivenessJean Bethke Elshtain 4. The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative IssuesTuomas ForsbergPart Two: Dimensions 5. Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights InstitutionsMartha Minow 6. National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionHugo van der Merwe 7. Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace ProcessMarie Smyth 8. Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political ViolenceBrandon Hamber Part Three: Cases 9. Passion, Constraint, Law and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean DemocracyAlexandra Barahona de Brito 10. War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in GuatemalaRachel Sieder 11. Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionCharles Villa-Vicencio 12. Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Contextof Armed Conflict and Failed Political TransitionStef Vandeginste 13. Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the PastTerence McCaughey Part Four: Conclusion ConclusionNigel Biggar Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11Nigel Biggar specialized Nigel Biggar, editor. "Book has its origins in a conference that was held in September 1998 at St. Antony's College, Oxford"--Ack. Includes bibliographical references and index. Restorative justice Justicia restaurativa Reconciliation Conciliación Civil war Guerra civil Estudios de casos JC 578 B975 2003 303.6/9 0878403949 9780878403943 ZWZ 030915 20240524143342.0 79505 fre