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Truth recovery in Northern Ireland : critically interpreting the past / Kirk Simpson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Kirk.
- Series:
- EBL-Schweitzer
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peace-building--Northern Ireland.
- Peace-building.
- Truth commissions--Northern Ireland.
- Truth commissions.
- Political violence--Northern Ireland.
- Political violence.
- Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1968-1998.
- Northern Ireland.
- Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1998-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- Online-ausg.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history - truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past - yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims' rights is particularly striking. This book analyses truth recovery as a fundamental aspect of the transition from political violence to peace, democracy and stability in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Kirk Simpson argues that it is essential for any process of truth recovery in Northern Ireland to provide the victims of political violence with the opportunit.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; List of boxes; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The conflict in Northern Ireland A contextual and thematic analysis; 2 Truth commissions and dealing with the past; 3 Voices silenced, voices rediscovered Victims of violence and the reclamation of language in transitional societies; 4 Victims of political violence A Habermasian model of truth recovery; 5 Memorialisation in post-conflict societies Critically interpreting the past; 6 Conclusion; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-151) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78170-304-3
- 1-84779-344-4
- OCLC:
- 818847382
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