Reconciliation(s) : Transitional Justice in Postconflict Societies.

Intro -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE: RECONCILIATION IN THEORY -- 2 Forgiveness as Righteousness -- 3 Towards the Healing of History: An Exploration of the Relationship between Pardon and Peace -- 4 A Dialectic of Acknowledgment -- PART TWO: RECONCILIATION IN PRACTICE: EVALUATING INSTRUMENTS AND INITIATIVES -- 5 Transitional Justice in Morocco: Lifting the Veil on a Hidden Face -- 6 Traditional Justice and Legal Pluralism in Transitional Context: The Case of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts -- 7 Truth and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Guatemala -- 8 Contact and Culture: Mechanisms of Reconciliation in Schools in Northern Ireland and Israel -- 9 What of Reconciliation? Traditional Mechanisms of Acknowledgment in Uganda -- 10 A Survey of Reconciliation Processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Gap between People and Politics -- 11 Tensions between Human Rights and the Politics of Reconciliation: A South African Case Study -- 12 Interethnic Reconciliation in Lebanon: After the Civil War -- 13 Beyond Coexistence: Towards a Working Definition of Reconciliation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

The transformation of conflict and postconflict societies through transitional justice is now recognized as vital to the process of peacebuilding, with mechanisms such as trials, truth commissions, and apologies seen as essential for effecting societal change. It is widely argued that "reconciliation" is a key element of this process, yet both scholars and practitioners are unclear as to what the concept is or how the process works.

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