Trudy Govier and Carol A. Prager

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Dilemmas of Reconciliation is a pioneering effort that explores the extraordinary challenges that must be faced in the aftermath of genocide or barbarous civil wars. How these challenges of reconciliation are faced and resolved will affect not only the victims' ability to go on with their lives but will impact regional stability and, ultimately, world peace.

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Martha Minow, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness:  Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence, Harvard University Law School.

This vital collection challenges anyone living in a violent world -- which means all of us -- to consider when and how survivors can reconcile rather than recapitulate the violence. With cogent essays and detailed case studies, philosophers, political theorists, historians, and activists join here to move beyond platitudes into deep analysis of why and how acknowledgement of harm matters, and what kinds of peacemaking and mediation can be justified and can actually address moral and psychic wounds. Important grounds for doubt and reasons for hope gathered here shed light on the past and offer illumination for the future.

Howard Adelman, York University.

A brilliant mix of theoretical analysis and empirical case studies that brings out clearly and concisely the political, legal, economic, and psycho-social dimensions of post-conflict reconciliation.

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Table of Contents

Introduction   Carol A.L. Prager

Overview  Michael R. Marrus

Perspectives and Approaches

1. Reckoning with Past Wrongs: A Normative Framework -  David A. Crocker
2. What is Acknowledgement and Why is it Important?  - Trudy Govier
3. Reconciliation for Realists   - Susan Dwyer
4. Crime as Interpersonal Conflict:  Reconciliation between Victim and Offender -  Marc Forget
5. Mass Rape and the Concept of International Crime  - Larry May
6. What can Others Do? Foreign Governments and the Politics of Peacebuilding -  Tom Keating
7. Aspects of Understanding and Judging Mass Human Rights Abuses   - Carol A. L. Prager

Case Studies

8. We are all Treaty People:  History, Reconciliation, and the "Settler Problem"  - Roger Epp
9.  Toward a Response for Criticisms of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
   - Wilhelm Verwoerd
10. Reimagining Guatemala: Reconciliation and the Indigenous Accords  - Jim Handy
11. Coming to Terms with the Terror and History of Pol Pot's Cambodia -  David Chandler
12. National Reconciliation in Russia  - Janet Keeping

Conclusion
13. What We Have Learned -  Justice Richard J. Goldstone

Index

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