[PDF] The Truth About Reconciliation The Impact Of Truth Recovery Mechanisms On Reconciliation In Post Conflict Spocieties eBook

Author : Tomoe Nakagawa
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2012
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Since the end of the Cold War, our world has seen an increase in intra-state conflict and the emergence of the notion of state accountability for the treatment of their citizens. Furthermore, sovereign states increasingly see that it is in their interest to apply the rule of law and human rights norms beyond their borders. While peace building efforts have been achieved through criminal prosecutions, truth commissions, reparation programs, and vetting, a truth commission, in particular, has been progressively used in the past decade as one aspect of transitional justice measures. This increase in use illustrates its popularity in handling sensitive and fragile post-conflict societies. However, unless a state fulfills its obligations to protect the rights of its citizens by implementing recommendations by a truth commission, there is little room for creating a just and peaceful society. Therefore, how the international community deals with volatile post-conflict situations, i.e., the issue of accountability for human rights abuse and reconciliation, has wider implications for global stability. Drawing experiences chronologically from the past three different commissions in El Salvador, South Africa, and Sierra Leone, I will analyze tensions between justice and truth and to what extent truth commissions are effective in promoting reconciliation and achieving a durable peace. Then, taking an example of the recently established commission in Sri Lanka as a case study, I will examine what kind of lessons Sri Lanka can (or cannot) draw from truth and reconciliation processes used in similar cases. For my hypothesis, I will argue that without international pressure or changes within the leadership, institutional reforms or prosecution will not take place. This is especially true with intra-state armed conflicts because international action on protecting human rights may be essential. For the time being, there have been no prosecutions in Sri Lanka to address past abuses, nor institutional reforms to protect people from human rights violation in the future, thus, my hypothesis is correct. For these reasons, Sri Lanka poses a new challenge to countrywide reconciliation and the concept of transitional justice mechanisms, i.e., truth commissions and prosecution. To conclude, this thesis calls for further research to respond to a new challenge that truth commissions are facing in dealing with post-conflict countries.

Author : Tristan Anne Borer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Peace-building
ISBN : 9780268021962

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This important collection examines the contributions of truth-telling mechanisms, such as truth commissions, to long-term sustainable peace. The question of whether and how truth brings peace is under examined in scholarly literature on conflict resolution, conflict transformation, and transitional justice. This book argues that to ensure a future that does not reiterate the past, the atrocities of war and conflict must be brought to light and addressed. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volume from the fields of political science, law, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and theology closely examine the conditions under which various forms of truth telling in post-conflict societies contribute to a sustainable peace. This volume is the first to highlight the intersection of peace building and transitional justice and will be an invaluable resource.

Author : Rachel Kerr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000331245

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This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war. Reconciliation is a concept that resists easy definition. At the same time, it is almost invariably invoked as a goal of post-conflict reconstruction, peacebuilding and transitional justice. This book examines the considerable ambiguity and controversy surrounding the term and, crucially, asks what has reconciliation entailed historically? What can we learn from past episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation? Taken together, the chapters in this volume adopt an interdisciplinary approach, focused on the question of how reconciliation has been enacted, performed and understood in particular historical episodes, and how that might contribute to our understanding of the concept and its practice. Rather than seek a universal definition, the book focuses on what makes each case of reconciliation unique, and highlights the specificity of reconciliation in individual contexts. This book will be of much interest to students of transitional justice, conflict resolution, human rights, history and International Relations.

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Amnesty
ISBN : 0958479453

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Reconciliation - Ubuntu - Peace processes - Reparation - Restorative justice - Amnesty - Memory - Testimony - Transitional justice - Genocide - The international criminal court - Truth commissions - Traditional and customary law - Human rights - Rights and reconciliation - Economic transformation - National truth commissions - Online resources on transitional.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309171733

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The end of the Cold War has changed the shape of organized violence in the world and the ways in which governments and others try to set its limits. Even the concept of international conflict is broadening to include ethnic conflicts and other kinds of violence within national borders that may affect international peace and security. What is not yet clear is whether or how these changes alter the way actors on the world scene should deal with conflict: Do the old methods still work? Are there new tools that could work better? How do old and new methods relate to each other? International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War critically examines evidence on the effectiveness of a dozen approaches to managing or resolving conflict in the world to develop insights for conflict resolution practitioners. It considers recent applications of familiar conflict management strategies, such as the use of threats of force, economic sanctions, and negotiation. It presents the first systematic assessments of the usefulness of some less familiar approaches to conflict resolution, including truth commissions, "engineered" electoral systems, autonomy arrangements, and regional organizations. It also opens up analysis of emerging issues, such as the dilemmas facing humanitarian organizations in complex emergencies. This book offers numerous practical insights and raises key questions for research on conflict resolution in a transforming world system.

Author : Kevin P. Clements
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2020-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000294013

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This edited volume examines the group dynamics of social reconciliation in conflict-affected societies by adopting ideas developed in social psychology and the everyday peace discourse in peace and conflict studies. The book revisits the intra- and inter-group dynamics of social reconciliation in conflict-affected societies, which have been largely marginalised in mainstream peacebuilding debates. By applying social psychological perspectives and the discourse of everyday peace, the chapters explore the everyday experience of community actors engaged in social and political reconciliation. The first part of the volume introduces conceptual and theoretical studies that focus on the pros and cons of state-level reconciliation and their outcomes, while presenting theoretical insights into dialogical processes upon which reconciliation studies can develop further. The second part presents a series of empirical case studies from around the world, which examine the process of social reconciliation at community levels through the lens of social psychology and discourse analysis. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, social psychology, discourse analysis and international relations in general.

Author : David Bloomfield
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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How does a newly democratized nation constructively address the past to move from a divided history to a shared future? How do people rebuild coexistence after violence? The International IDEA Handbook on Reconciliation after Violent Conflict presents a range of tools that can be, and have been, employed in the design and implementation of reconciliation processes. Most of them draw on the experience of people grappling with the problems of past violence and injustice. There is no "right answer" to the challenge of reconciliation, and so the Handbook prescribes no single approach. Instead, it presents the options and methods, with their strengths and weaknesses evaluated, so that practitioners and policy-makers can adopt or adapt them, as best suits each specific context. Also available in a French language version.

Author : Raymond G. Helmick
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 189015184X

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This book brings together a unique combination of experts in conflict resolution and focuses on the role forgiveness can play in the process. It deals with theology, public policy, psychological and social theory, and social policy implementation of forgiveness. This book is essential for libraries, scholars, conflict negotiators, and all people who hope to understand the role of forgiveness in the peace process. The book's first section explores how ideas like "forgiveness" and "reconciliation" are moving out from the seminary and academy into the world of public policy and how these terms have been used and defined in the past. The second section looks at forgiveness and public policy. One of the chapters, by Donald W. Shriver Jr., addresses forgiveness in a secular political forum. The third section of the book draws us to a more thorough analysis of the relationship between forgiveness and reconciliation from voices in the academic and theological community, and the final section highlights the work of practitioners currently working with religion, public policy, and conflict transformation, particularly in areas such as Ireland and Africa. Contributors include Desmond M. Tutu, Rodney L. Petersen, Miroslav Volf, Stanley S. Harakas, Raymond G. Helmick, SJ, Joseph V. Montville, Douglas M. Johnston, Donna Hicks, Donald W. Shriver, Jr., Everett L. Worthington, Jr., John Paul Lederach, Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman, John Dawson, Audrey R. Chapman, Olga Botcharova, Anthony da Silva, SJ, Geraldine Smythe, OP, Andrea Bartoli, Ofelia Ortega, and George F. R. Ellis.