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Theorising Post-Conflict Reconciliation : Agonism, Restitution & Repair.

The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict. This volume asks how many of the popular...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirsch, Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Colección:Interventions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict. This volume asks how many of the popular conclusions reached by transitional justice studies fall short, or worse, unwittingly perpetuate the very injustices they aim to suture. Though often well intentioned, these approaches generally resolve in an injunction to ""move on, "" as it were; to leave the painful past behind in the name of a c.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages).
ISBN:9780203144473
0203144473