Reconciliation in Global Context : : Why It Is Needed and How It Works.

• Superior document: SUNY Press Open Access Series
• Author: Krondorfer, Bjö.
• Place / Publishing House: Albany : : State University of New York Press,, 2018.; {copy}2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: SUNY Press Open Access Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 pages)

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Social and Political Reconciliation -- Reconciliation as a Concept -- A Polysemic Phenomenon -- Political and Social Reconciliation -- Emotional (Memory) Work -- Structure of This Book -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1 Interpersonal Reconciliation with Groups in Conflict Israelis and Palestinians, Germans and Jews -- Biographical Interlude -- Trauma and Trust: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Chosen Traumas -- "I was afraid you arrange for our kidnapping" -- Unsettling Empathy -- Memory and Fear: On German Family History -- Frauengeschichte: A Woman's Family Constellation -- "The truth almost drove me mad" -- Outlook -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Beyond a Dilemma of Apology Transforming (Veteran) Resistance to Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and South Africa -- Practical Wisdom of "Veteran Reconcilers" -- We Were Right -- We Were Not Always Right -- We Were Right Then, but Now? -- We Were Wrong, but We Are Not Bad -- Journeying through "We Were Right" -- Acknowledging Their Suffering: Between Apology and Indifference/Justification/Denial -- I'm Sorry, but We Were Right -- Compassion without Confession -- On Tragic Choices and Moral Dilemmas -- Concluding Remarks: Transforming Resistance to Reconciliation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Societal Reconciliation through Psychosocial Methods The Case of Zimbabwe -- Violence in Zimbabwe: 1980 to the Present -- Psychological Consequences of Violence and Societal Reconciliation -- Freire's Philosophy of Critical Consciousness and the Training for Transformation Methodology -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Bringing Faith into the Practice of Peace Paths to Reconciliation of Bosnian Muslims -- Religiosity and Secularism in BiH -- Faith-Based Activism in BiH's Postwar Civil Society -- Bosnian Muslim Peacebuilding.

Faith in Practice: Religious Peacebuilding Techniques and Methods -- Using and Adapting Existing Religious and Cultural Rituals to Traditional Ways (3) -- Using Religion in Debate and Finding Common Ground (4) -- Peace Education as a Foundation for Transforming Conflict and Building Peace Within and Between Religious Believers and Communities (5) -- Religious Peacemaking through Communication Skills (6) -- Interfaith Mobilization for Peace (8) -- Awakening the Global Community (9) -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Reconciliation in the Midst of Strife Palestine -- Defining Reconciliation -- Why Reconciliation? -- A Personal Perspective -- The Hölderlin Perspective : Reconciliation in the Midst of Conflict -- Fear, Trust, and Reconciliation -- Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 No Future without a Shared Ethos Reconciling Palestinian and Israeli Identities -- The Challenge of Changing an Ethos -- Reconciliation as Recognition and Demand -- A Shared Ethos for Palestinians and Israelis: Preliminary Guidelines -- Land -- Trauma -- Violence -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 When Reconciliation Becomes the R-Word Dealing with the Past in Former Yugoslavia -- The European Union and the Franco-German Model -- Reconciliation and Conditionality -- Srebrenica and Symbolic Politics -- Reconciliation without Recognition -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Epilogue Memory versus Reconciliation -- Reflective Analysis -- Creative Analysis -- Reconciliation: How to Start and How to End? -- Memoria Post-Bellum -- What If Reconciliation Is Not on the Agenda? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.