Burying the past : making peace and doing justice after civil conflict / Nigel Biggar, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biggar, Nigel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restorative justice.

Reconciliation.

Civil war--Case studies.

Civil war.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 350 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Expanded and updated.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2003]

Contents:

1. Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose? / Nigel Biggar 3

2. Where and When in Political Life Is Justice Served by Forgiveness? / Donald W. Shriver 25

3. Politics and Forgiveness / Jean Bethke Elshtain 45

4. The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues / Tuomas Forsberg 65

5. Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions / Martha Minow 87

6. National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Hugo Van Der Merwe 101

7. Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace Process / Marie Smyth 125

8. Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence / Brandon Hamber 155

9. Passion, Constraint, Law, and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy / Alexandra Barahona De Brito 177

10. War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala / Rachel Sieder 209

11. Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Charles Villa-Vicencio 235

12. Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition / Stef Vandeginste 251

13. Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the Past / Terence McCaughey 287

Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11 / Nigel Biggar 325.

Notes:

"Book has its origins in a conference that was held in September 1998 at St. Antony's College, Oxford"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0878403949

OCLC:

50503209