Truth Recovery and Justice After Conflict: Managing Violent Pasts

ISBN-13: 9780415433983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 224 str.

Marie Smyth; Bre Smyth Marie

Opis

Considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are used to unearth the acts committed by the various protagonists. It focuses on the conditions which predispose - or prevent - embarkation on a truth recovery process, and the rationale for that process.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Function of Truth Recovery in Transitional Societies  3. Truth and Cultures of Organised and Normalised Lying  4. Shame, Honour and Cultures of Violence and Peace  5. Victims, Healing, Forgiveness and Truth  Case Study  6. Framing the Grievances of the Past: Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement  7. Readiness for Truth: The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee Inquiry  8. Is Northern Ireland Ready for Truth?  9. Conclusions: Truth Recovery and Post Conflict Reconstruction

O autorze

Marie Breen Smyth is Reader in the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth; and Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). She has edited five volumes and written a number of books, including Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs (with Mike Morrissey).