Trading Justice for Peace? : : Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries /

Trading Justice for Peace? : : Reframing reconciliation in TRC processes in South Africa, Canada and Nordic countries / / Sigriður Guðmarsdóttir, Paulette Regan, Demaine Jason Solomons.

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Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensa...

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VerfasserIn:
Guðmarsdóttir, Sigriður,
Solomons, Demaine Jason,
Regan, Paulette,
TeilnehmendeR:
Solomons, Demaine Jason,
Regan, Paulette,
Place / Publishing House:Cape Town, South Africa : : AOSIS,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations and Figures Appearing in the Text and Notes
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Trading justice for peace? Perils and possibilities
  • Demaine Solomons, Paulette Regan & Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
  • Book structure and themes
  • Spelling variations of 'Sámi'
  • A final word
  • Part One: Negotiating truth, justice and reconciliation: TRC mandates, processes and legacies
  • Chapter 1: Negotiating the meaning of 'TRC' in the Norwegian context Tore Johnsen
  • Introduction
  • Background: Settlement history, the Norwegianisation policy and the emergence of demands for a TRC
  • Negotiating the status/Level of the Norwegian Investigation: Initial Pre-TRC Political Debates (2015-2017)
  • Negotiating the interpretative horizon of the inquiry: The mandate and the troublesome name of the 'TRC' (2017-2018)
  • Public-methodological implications of 'TRC: The first half of the implementation phase (2018-2020)
  • The Value of Personal Testimonies for the TRC's Truth-seeking Is there a public dimension beyond gathering testimonies? 'Reconciliation' and the people-to-people perspective Concluding remarks: Suggestions and recommendations
  • Chapter 2: Canada's TRC: An 'unsettling' Indigenous-centred relational justice and reconciliation model
  • Paulette Regan
  • Canada's TRC: A post-TRC reflection
  • Indigenous peoples and TRCS in settler-colonial states: Trading justice for peace?
  • Origins of Canada's TRC: Western transitional justice and ADR in a settler-colonial state
  • Towards an Indigenous-centred TRC:
  • The Commission's mandate, structure and operations An 'unsettling' Indigenous-centred relational justice and reconciliation model
  • Post-TRC accountability on calls to action
  • Conclusion: Transnational insights from Canada's TRC
  • Chapter 3: Reconciliation recommended: On the anchoring of TRC proposals
  • Kjell-Åke Nordquist
  • Introduction
  • The nature of recommendations - Two examples
  • Canada
  • South Africa
  • From actor to proxy
  • Political immunity?
  • Reconciliation or forgiveness?
  • Conflictual relations - Horizontal or not?
  • A theoretical blunder?
  • Three critical relationships
  • Intragroup critics
  • Bystanders
  • Crossing the diagonal
  • A negotiating TRC?
  • A concluding word
  • Chapter 4: Reconciliation as an outcome rather than an intention
  • Stanley Henkeman
  • Introduction
  • Roots of reconciliation as we know it
  • Broadening the framework
  • Reconciliation imposed from the top
  • Inverse approach - Reconciliation from below Conclusion
  • Chapter 8: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: An invitation to boldness
  • Sheryl Lightfoot
  • Introduction
  • The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Truth and reconciliation commission of Canada
  • The bold move: A fundamental discursive shift
  • A new landscape: Transformative change Conclusion
  • Part Three: Re-storying national histories: Counter-narratives of social memory and justice
  • Chapter 9: Narrative and truth and reconciliation
  • John Klaasen
  • Introduction
  • Storytelling
  • Overview of the establishment of the TRC
  • Stories and 'storyscape' as methodology
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 10: Reburial of Sami human remains as ritualised reconciliation
  • Daniel Lindmark
  • Introduction
  • The Church-Sami reconciliation process Ritual as drama
  • Earlier reburials of Sami human remains
  • The removal and return of human remains from the old cemetery in Lycksele
  • The Lycksele repatriation project as reconciliatory practice
  • The reburial ceremony in Lycksele
  • The reburial ceremony as ritualised reconciliation
  • 'Restoration in reconciliation?"
  • Reconciliation in theory and practice - A concluding discussion
  • Chapter 11: Records as instruments of truth, justice and
  • reconciliation - Disrupting colonialism in archival praxis Elizabeth Shaffer
  • Introduction
  • The Indian residential school system and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
  • Truth commissions and records
  • UNDRIP and the United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles
  • The right to know and the duty to remember
  • Engaging archival praxis
  • The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC Conclusion
  • Part Four: Histories of violence and trauma:
  • negotiating identity, responsibility and accountability for redress and reconciliation
  • Chapter 12: Steve Biko as a 'Christian': A contribution to ethnic and racial reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa Eugene Baron
  • Introduction
  • The legacy of racialisation in South Africa
  • Black consciousness as an ethnic response
  • Black consciousness as a socio-economic response
  • Black consciousness as a theological response
  • Biko's black consciousness response as a Christian response
  • Biko's problem with Christianity
  • South African hope: Ethnic reconciliation
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 13: Social justice, white beneficiaries and the South African TRC
  • Wilhelm Verwoerd
  • 'Us? Beneficiaries of apartheid!? The very thought White beneficiaries: Pre- and post-1994
  • White 'participants' pre-1994
  • White beneficiaries, participants and perpetuators
  • Between perpetration and implication - What about former white conscripts?
  • Becoming white beneficiaries
  • 'I am - The brutal thing itself: A little Benzien in each beneficiary?
  • Chapter 14: Unsettling 'perpetrators': Comrade memories of complex violence and the South African TRC
  • Kim Wale
  • Introduction
  • Haunted histories of squatter-comrade violence
  • Unsettling hegemonic narratives and identities of past violence Squatter-comrades of Crossroads: 'Dented' memories of courage and fear
  • The split between 'just' and 'unjust' violence
  • The social-psychological trauma of a double unclaiming
  • Reclaiming violence in the 'grey zone'
  • Walking memories spiral: A continuous, dynamic, unsettling process
  • Chapter 15: Building thin sympathetic engagement to foster
  • truth commission success
  • Joanna R. Quinn
  • Introduction
  • Three cases
  • A different kind of violence Over and over and over
  • Intervention: Thin sympathy
  • In reverse
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion: Forging transnational pathways for reconciliation Paulette Regan, Demaine Solomons & Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir
  • References
  • Index.

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