Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century / / Birgit Schwelling (editor).

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
• TeilnehmendeR: Schwelling, Birgit, 1967-
• Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Erinnerungskulturen ; Bd. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.

»Der Sammelband [bietet] einen überzeugenden Einblick in Prozesse und Formen der ›transitional justice‹, die oft so gar nicht in das standardmäßige Repertoire auf diesem Gebiet passen wollen und unterstützt damit auch eine stärkere Berücksichtigung der lokalen und kulturellen Bezüge in Versuchen der Verarbeitung vergangener Verbrechen.« Julia Kling, Südost-Forschungen, 73 (2014) »Ein gelungener Sammelband, der mit der Breite seiner Beispiele das Verständnis von Versöhnungsprozessen jenseits nationaler Grenzen erweitert.« Ilse Raaijmakers, H-Soz-u-Kult, 02.05.2013 Reviewed in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, 1 (2013) www.pw-portal.de, 25.06.2013, Björn Wagner

Table of Contents

1 Contents 5 Transnational Civil Society's Contribution to Reconciliation 7 "A Question of Humanity in its Entirety" 25 Mea Culpas, Negotiations, Apologias 51 Soldiers' Reconciliation 97 "A Blessed Act of Oblivion" 115 Franco-German Rapprochement and Reconciliation in the Ecclesial Domain 143 A Right to Irreconcilability? 167 From Atonement to Peace? 201 Apologising for Colonial Violence 239 Facing Postcolonial Entanglement and the Challenge of Responsibility 277 Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry 315 From Truth to Reconciliation 339 About the Authors 369