Pathways to Reconciliation: Between Theory and Practice

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Reconciliation: what makes it possible, what impedes it, how to foster and promote it and how to build the social conditions in which it can flourish? These are pressing questions for an increasingly significant concept in community and international relations. This book is a creative engagement with the central terms of reconciliation - forgiveness, nationhood, conflict resolution, justice and memory - and with approaches to questions of listening and understanding the 'other'. It is premised on the view that an essential pathway to the achievement of reconciliation lies in developing and disseminating critical concepts that capture the nuances of practice. Drawing on fields in the social sciences and humanities, including post structuralism, hermeneutics, subaltern studies and social theory, and elaborated in relation to contemporary sites of conflict and peace-making, this collection brings together a unique range of perspectives on the complex issue of reconciliation while offering responses to the key questions being asked of it today. Cover Half Title Dedication Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on Editors and Contributors Foreword Preface: The Human Face of Indigenous Australia Acknowledgements Introduction Pathways to Reconciliation: Bringing Diverse Voices into Conversation Part I: The Complex Pathways of Reconciliation 1 Lead Essay: Evaluating Reconciliation 2 The Task of Justice 3 Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation of Peoples 4 Hegemony, Ethics and Reconciliation 5 Telling a Different Story: Hope for Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland 6 Truth, Reconciliation and Nation Formation in ‘Our Land’ of Timor-L’Este 7 Testimony, Nation Building and the Ethics of Witnessing: After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa 8 Reconciliation with the Dead, and Other Unfamiliar Pathways Part II: Sites of Reconciliation 9 Lead Essay: Reconciliation: From the Usually Unspoken to the Almost Unimaginable 10 Accountability, Remorse and Reconciliation: Lessons from South Africa, Mozambique and Rwanda 11 Community Reconciliation in East Timor: A Personal Perspective 12 The Role of Economic Development in Reconciliation: An Experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 Between Denial and Reconciliation: Lessons from South Africa to Israel and Palestine 14 The Australian Reconciliation Process: An Analysis 15 Stepping Forward: Reconciliation and the Good Relations Agenda in Organizational Practice in Northern Ireland Index