Flowers in the Wall : : truth and reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia / / edited by David Webster.

What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with and w...

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Place / Publishing House:Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
2017
Language:English
Series:Global Indigenous Issues Series,
Physical Description:1 online resource (284 pages) :; illustrations, photographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Table of Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia
  • Incomplete Truth, Incomplete Reconciliation: Towards a Scholarly Verdict on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
  • Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste
  • East Timor: Legacies of Violence
  • Shining Chega!’s Light into the Cracks
  • Politika Taka Malu, Censorship, and Silencing: Virtuosos of Clandestinity and One’s Relationship to Truth and Memory
  • Development and Foreign Aid in Timor-Leste after Independence
  • Reconciliation, Church, and Peacebuilding
  • Human Rights and Truth
  • Chega! for Us: Socializing a Living Document
  • Memory, Truth-seeking, and the 1965 Mass Killings in Indonesia
  • Cracks in the Wall: Indonesia and Narratives of the 1965 Mass Violence
  • The Touchy Historiography of Indonesia’s 1965 Mass Killings: Intractable Blockades?
  • Writings of an Indonesian Political Prisoner
  • Local Truth and Reconciliation in Indonesia
  • Gambling with Truth: Hopes and Challenges for Aceh’s Commission for Truth and Reconciliation
  • All about the Poor: An alternative Explanation of the Violence in Poso
  • Where Indonesia Meets Melanesia: Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation in Tanah Papua
  • Facts, Feasts, and Forests: Considering Truth and Reconciliation in Tanah Papua
  • The Living Symbol of Song in West Papua: A Soul Force to be Reckoned With
  • Time for a New US Approach toward Indonesia and West Papua
  • Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation in Solomon Islands
  • The Solomon Islands “Ethnic Tension” Conflict and the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Personal Reflection
  • Women and Reconciliation in Solomon Islands
  • Bringing it Home
  • Reflecting on Reconciliation
  • Conclusion: Seeking Truth about Truth-seeking
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Contributors