Burying the past : making peace and doing justice after civil conflict /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Biggar, Nigel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2001]
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Table of Contents:
  • Making peace or doing justice: must we choose? / Nigel Biggar
  • Where and when in political life is justice served by forgiveness? / Donald Shriver
  • Politics and forgiveness / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • The philosophy and practice of dealing with the past: some conceptual and normative issues / Tuomas Forsberg
  • Innovating responses to the past: human rights institutions / Martha Minow
  • National and community reconciliation: competing agendas in South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Hugo van der Merwe
  • Putting the past in its place: issues of victimhood and reconciliation in Northern Ireland's peace process / Marie Smyth
  • Does the truth heal? A psychological perspective on political strategies for dealing with the legacy of political violence / Brandon Hamber
  • Passion, constraint, law, and fortuna: the human rights challenge to Chilean democracy / Alexandra Barahona de Brito
  • War, peace, and the politics of memory in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder
  • Restorative justice in social context: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Charles Villa-Vicencio
  • Rwanda: dealing with genocide and crimes against humanity in the context of armed conflict and failed political transition / Stef Vandeginste
  • Northern Ireland: burying the hatchet, not the past / Terence McCaughey.