Cover Image

Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory : Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century /

Show other versions (1)

How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish int...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Schwelling, Birgit (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2013]
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Erinnerungskulturen ; Bd. 2.
Subjects:
Reconciliation > Political aspects.
Apologizing > Social aspects.
Reconciliation > Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Réconciliation > Aspect politique.
Excuses (Regret) > Aspect social.
Réconciliation > Aspect social.
Mémoire collective.
Collective memory
Reconciliation > Political aspects
Armenian Genocide.
Civil Society.
Contemporary History.
Cultural Studies.
Franco-German Relations.
Globalization.
Human Rights.
Memory Culture.
Political Science.
Politics.
Reconciliation.
War and Society.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Transnational Civil Society's Contribution to Reconciliation / Schwelling, Birgit
  • Reconciliation after the Armenian Genocide
  • "A Question of Humanity in its Entirety" / Payne, Charlton
  • Mea Culpas, Negotiations, Apologias / Erbal, Ayda
  • Reconciliation and Human Rights
  • Soldiers' Reconciliation / Winter, Jay
  • "A Blessed Act of Oblivion" / Duranti, Marco
  • Reconciliation in the Aftermath of World War II
  • Franco-German Rapprochement and Reconciliation in the Ecclesial Domain / Schröber, Ulrike
  • A Right to Irreconcilability? / Erkenbrecher, Andrea
  • From Atonement to Peace? / Wienand, Christiane
  • Reconciliation in Postcolonial Settings
  • Apologising for Colonial Violence / Stock, Robert
  • Facing Postcolonial Entanglement and the Challenge of Responsibility / Kössler, Reinhart
  • Instruments of Reconciliation: Commissions in European and Global Perspective
  • Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / Sutton, Melinda
  • From Truth to Reconciliation / Krüger, Anne K.
  • About the Authors