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Anger, hatred, resentment, grudges—when the products of conflict smolder for years, decades, or centuries, the idea of peace may seem elusive and unrealistic. At the same time, people and societies need to move beyond these negative traumatic effects so they can heal. Forgiveness and Reconciliation explores in depth two different yet essential components of this peace-building process. Unlike most books on the subject, which tend to focus on the individual’s development of forgiveness from a single perspective, Forgiveness and Reconciliation reaches across the spectrum of approaches—socio-psychological, biopsychological, therapeutic, developmental, and spiritual among them—to offer examples of intervention at the individual, community, generational, and national levels. This inclusiveness (and a range of real-world illustrations from U.S. race relations to the Armenian genocide) gives readers access to not only the core issues of forgiveness and the dialogic nature of reconciliation, but also the intersecting psychological and social processes involved as they affect all participants in conflict. Highlights of the coverage: Reconciliation efforts in Rwanda, Darfur, India, and Pakistan. Restorative conferencing and its role in fostering forgiveness. Lessons in empathy and repentance from lifers in prison. Promoting reconciliation through arts and the media. The potential for forgiveness despite revisionism, denial, and continued injustice. Reconciliation in the divided society. Forgiveness and Reconciliation breaks new ground as a volume that will enhance the work of social and peace psychologists, students and researchers in intergroup and international relations, and peace and conflict studies.
Forgiveness --- Reconciliation. --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Unforgiveness --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychology. --- Personality. --- Social psychology. --- Personality and Social Psychology. --- Quarreling --- Conduct of life --- Absolution --- Amnesty --- Clemency --- Pardon --- Consciousness. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Individuality --- Persons --- Temperament
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Following periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to offer redress to victims of the old regime without perpetuating cycles of revenge. Traditionally, balance has been restored through arrests, trials, and punishment, but in the last three decades, more than twenty countries have opted to have a truth commission investigate the crimes of the prior regime and publish a report about the investigation, often incorporating accounts from victims.Although many praise the work of truth commissions for empowering and healing through words rather than violence, some condemn the practice as a poor substitute for traditional justice, achieved through trials and punishment. There has been until now little analysis of the unarticulated claim that underlies the truth commissions' very existence: that language-in this case narrative stories-can substitute for violence. Acknowledging revenge as a real and deep human need, Shattered Voices explores the benefits and problems inherent when a fragile country seeks to heal its victims without risking its own future.In developing a theory about the role of language in retribution, Teresa Godwin Phelps takes an interdisciplinary approach, delving into sources from Greek tragedy to Hamlet, from Kant to contemporary theories about retribution, from the Babylonian law codes to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Report. She argues that, given the historical and psychological evidence about revenge, starting afresh by drawing a bright line between past crimes and a new government is both unrealistic and unwise.When grievous harm happens, a rebalancing is bound to occur, whether it is orderly and lawful or disorderly and unlawful. Shattered Voices contends that language is requisite to any adequate balancing, and that a solution is viable only if it provides an atmosphere in which storytelling and subsequent dialogue can flourish. In the developing culture of ubiquitous truth reports, Phelps argues that we must become attentive to the form these reports take-the narrative structure, the use of victims' stories, and the way a political message is conveyed to the citizens of the emerging democracy.By looking concretely at the work and responsibilities of truth commissions, Shattered Voices offers an important and thoughtful analysis of the efficacy of the ways human rights abuses are addressed.
Truth commissions. --- Human rights. --- Reconciliation. --- Governmental investigations. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- General --- Law, Politics & Government --- Human Rights --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Commissions of inquiry --- Executive investigations --- Government investigations --- Investigations, Governmental --- Judicial investigations --- Legislative investigations --- Investigations --- Justice, Administration of --- Legislation --- Legislative bodies --- Legislative oversight --- Public administration --- Law and legislation --- Committees --- Human Rights. --- Law. --- Political Science.
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Reconciliation --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- 227.08 --- 227.1*1 --- 227.1*1 Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- Brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen --- 227.08 Paulinische theologie --- Paulinische theologie --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Bible. --- Epître aux Romains (Book of the New Testament) --- List do Rzymian (Book of the New Testament) --- Roma-sŏ --- Római levél --- Romans (Book of the New Testament) --- Romasŏ --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Christianity
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The 1991-2002 war in Sierra Leone was infamous for mass amputations, widespread sexual violence, and forced recruitment of children into rebel forces. It was not an ethnic war, but one that tore families and communities apart in ways that could not be sustained in peacetime. After the war, the Sierra Leone government and civil society organizations encouraged combatants to return home and communities to accept them, even when the combatants, or forces they were associated with, had committed horrendous crimes in those very villages. This book describes how excombatants and civilian survivors in Sierra Leone struggled to reconcile and build trust in their communities a year after the war ended. It explores the contribution of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission to reconciliation and justice, and questions whether reconciliation is always a good thing. And it examines how the seemingly nebulous concept of reconciliation can be understood so that the term is useful for peacebuilding and consistent with justice. Finally the author argues that Sierra Leone has much to teach peacebuilders in societies emerging from intra-communal violence and much to contribute to comparative analyses of post-conflict transitions.
Peaceful settlement of international disputes --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- Sierra Leone --- Peace-building --- Restorative justice --- Reconciliation --- Consolidation de la paix --- Justice réparatrice --- Réconciliation --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Sierra Leone. --- History --- Histoire --- PEACEBUILDING -- 341.61 --- Justice réparatrice --- Réconciliation --- Social aspects --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Balanced and restorative justice --- BARJ (Restorative justice) --- Community justice --- Restorative community justice --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Reparation (Criminal justice) --- Building peace --- Peacebuilding --- Conflict management --- Peace --- Peacekeeping forces --- Sierra Leone / Bürgerkrieg <1991-2002> --- Droit humanitaire --- Crimes contre l'humanité --- 1991-.... (Guerre civile)
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Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the precise kinds of repair and transformation that processes of political reconciliation ought to promote. Building on this analysis, she proposes a normative model of political relationships. A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation delivers an original account of the failure and restoration of political relationships, which will be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and all those who are interested in transitional justice, global politics, and democracy.
Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Law of armed conflicts. Humanitarian law --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Reconciliation --- Rule of law --- Truth commissions --- War crimes trials --- Political aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Commissions, Truth --- Reconciliation commissions --- Governmental investigations --- Human rights --- Supremacy of law --- Administrative law --- Constitutional law --- Peace making --- Peacemaking --- Reconciliatory behavior --- Quarreling --- Rule of law. --- Truth commissions. --- War crime trials. --- Trials (War crimes) --- Trials (Crimes against humanity) --- Trials (Genocide) --- Trials --- Political aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Reconciliation - Political aspects --- Reconciliation - Moral and ethical aspects
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