Intense interest in past injustice lies at the centre of contemporary world politics. Most scholarly and public attention has focused on truth commissions, trials, lustration, and other related ...decisions, following political transitions. This book examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. Nobles argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minority groups demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices. Similarly, state actors support apologies for ideological and moral reasons, driven by their support of group rights, responsiveness to group demands, and belief that acknowledgment is due. Apologies, as employed by political actors, play an important, if underappreciated, role in bringing certain views about history and moral obligation to bear in public life.
A partir del pogromo de 1391, las conversiones forzosas de judíos y su posterior integración en la comunidad cristiana, aparecieron una serie de imágenes que defendían tanto la validez de los ...bautismos como la asimilación de estos neófitos como cristianos de pleno derecho. El arte se transformó en un potente instrumento con el que hacer visible un mensaje de reconciliación en el que el Antiguo Testamento era presentado como parte indispensable de la historia precristiana. Así, estas imágenes, a modo de escaparates, tenían la capacidad de transmitir y difundir los argumentos en favor de la unidad religiosa.
Following extended periods of conflict or repression, political reconciliation is indispensable to the establishment or restoration of democratic relationships and critical to the pursuit of ...peacemaking globally. In this book, Colleen Murphy offers an innovative analysis of the moral problems plaguing political relationships under the strain of civil conflict and repression. Focusing on the unique moral damage that attends the deterioration of political relationships, Murphy identifies the precise kinds of repair and transformation that processes of political reconciliation ought to promote. Building on this analysis, she proposes a normative model of political relationships. A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation delivers an original account of the failure and restoration of political relationships, which will be of interest to philosophers, social scientists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and all those who are interested in transitional justice, global politics, and democracy.
Though transitional justice has been hailed by many as the best path toward reconciliation and stability in postconflict and democratizing societies, criticisms of the approach also abound, with a ...significant number of TJ programs labeled failures. What accounts for this difference of opinion? How is success measured? Have the societies that sought to implement a plan for TJ followed the trajectory laid out in the policy design phase? And if not, was success sometimes achieved despite this variation--or perhaps because of it? Toshihiro Abe addresses these questions through an exploration of TJ projects at the local level in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Highlighting the tension between national goals and local realities, and finding unexpected positive outcomes within the context of official failure, Abe provides an important new understanding of the diverse outcomes of TJ policy.
Truth V. Justice Rotberg, Robert I; Thompson, Dennis
2000., 20100701, 2010, 2000, Volume:
20
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The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying ...degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of crimes committed against fellow citizens and to prevent future conflict. Others question whether a restorative justice that sets the guilty free, that cleanses society by words alone, can deter future abuses and allow victims and their families to heal. Here, leading philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, and activists representing several perspectives look at the process of truth commissioning in general and in post-apartheid South Africa. They ask whether the truth commission, as a method of seeking justice after conflict, is fair, moral, and effective in bringing about reconciliation.
En Colombia hay un creciente debate público sobre el reconocimiento de la naturaleza como víctima de la guerra y sobre las consecuentes acciones de reparación en el marco del pos-Acuerdo de Paz y la ...justicia transicional. Estas incluyen la llamada “reconstrucción de la memoria ambiental” de la guerra. A partir de un proyecto de reconstrucción de memoria socioecológica de la cuenca del río Mandur, en Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo, este artículo argumenta cómo un proyecto comunitario de investigación acción participativa sobre la memoria del conflicto y su relación con la degradación socioambiental constituye una estrategia metodológica alternativa para la reconciliación y la construcción de paz territorial. Así mismo, propone que este ejercicio es necesario para la construcción de una “reconciliación profunda” a partir del mejoramiento de los conflictos. In Colombia, there is a growing public and legal debate over the recognition of “nature” as a victim of war and the subsequent reparative actions in the context of the country’s post Peace Agreement and transitional justice scenario. These include the “reconstruction of the environmental memory” of the war. Based on a community-oriented project to reconstruct the socio-ecological memory of the Mandur River watershed in Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo, this article argues how a participatory action research project dealing with the memory of conflict, and its relationship to socio-environmental degradation, represents an alternative strategy for reconciliation and the construction of territorial peace-building processes. Moreover, this article proposes that it is necessary to build a “profound reconciliation”, based on the bettering of conflicts. Na Colômbia, há um crescente debate público sobre o reconhecimento da natureza como vítima da guerra e sobre as consequentes ações de reparação no âmbito do pós-Acordo de Paz e da justiça de transição. Estas incluem a chamada “reconstrução da memória ambiental” da guerra. A partir de um projeto de reconstrução da memória socioecológica da bacia do rio Mandur, em Puerto Guzmán, Putumayo, Colômbia, este artigo argumenta como um projeto comunitário de pesquisa-ação participativa sobre a memória do conflito e sua relação com a degradação socioambiental constitui uma estratégia metodológica alternativa para a reconciliação e a construção de paz territorial. Além disso, propõe que esse exercício seja necessário para construir uma “reconciliação profunda” a partir do melhoramento dos conflitos.
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into ...action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate aftermath of the transition from apartheid. From Apartheid to Democracy , in contrast, considers the varied, complex, and enduring effects of the Commission’s rhetorical wager. It is the first book-length study to analyze the TRC through such a lens. Katherine Elizabeth Mack focuses on the dissension and negotiations over difference provoked by the Commission’s process, especially its public airing of victims’ and perpetrators’ truths. She tracks agonistic deliberation (evidenced in the TRC’s public hearings) into works of fiction and photography that extend and challenge the Commission’s assumptions about truth, healing, and reconciliation. Ultimately, Mack demonstrates that while the TRC may not have achieved all of its political goals, its very existence generated valuable deliberation within and beyond its official process.
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to deal with the human rights violations of apartheid during the years 1960–1994. However, as Wilson shows, the TRC's ...restorative justice approach to healing the nation did not always serve the needs of communities at a local level. Based on extended anthropological fieldwork, this book illustrates the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. While a religious constituency largely embraced the commission's religious-redemptive language of reconciliation, Wilson argues that the TRC had little effect on popular ideas of justice as retribution. This provocative study deepens our understanding of post-apartheid South Africa and the use of human rights discourse. It ends on a call for more cautious and realistic expectations about what human rights institutions can achieve in democratizing countries.
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