Truth Recovery and Justice After Conflict: Managing Violent Pasts

ISBN-13: 9780415761833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Marie Breen Smyth

Opis

Focusing on the conditions which predispose or prevent embarkation on a truth recovery process and the rationale for that process, this text argues that there is no magic moment of 'readiness' for truth recovery, but that the conditions are constructed rather than spontaneously occurring.

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).