Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding

ISBN-13: 9780199364879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str.

Jennifer J. Llewellyn; Daniel Philpott

Opis

All over the world, the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular approaches, individual versus structural justice, reconciliation versus retribution, and the harmonization of the sheer number of practices involved in repairing past harms. Progress towards resolving these dilemmas requires reforming institutions and practices but also clear thinking about basic questions: What is justice? And how is it related to the building of peace? The twin concepts of reconciliation and restorative justice, both involving the holistic restoration of right relationship, contain not only a compelling logic of justice but also great promise for resolving peacebuilding's tensions and for constructing and assessing its institutions and practices. This book furthers this potential by developing not only the core content of these concepts but also their implications for accountability, forgiveness, reparations, traditional practices, human rights, and international law.

Recenzje

This is an unusual time not because some societies experience massive violence and oppression, but because lawyers, theologians, politicians, and members of civil society fight for responses. In the hands of the scholars whose essays make up this book, projects of truth-telling, reconciliation, and restorative justice become peace-building and social repair?

O autorze

Jennifer J. Llewellyn is the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. She has publishes and works extensively in the areas of relational theory and restorative justice. Most recently she co-edited the collection Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law (UBC, 2011). Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He pursues research on religion and global politics and on reconciliation . He is author most recently of Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, 2012). He works as an activist for reconciliation in Central and Eastern Africa.