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How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish int...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2013. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Erinnerungskulturen / Memory cultures ;
volume 2 |
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| Summary: |
How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (372 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839419311 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | CB427 |
| CLC: | D812 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Transnational Civil Society s Contribution to Reconciliation / "A Question of Humanity in its Entirety" / Mea Culpas, Negotiations, Apologias / Soldiers Reconciliation / "A Blessed Act of Oblivion" / Franco-German Rapprochement and Reconciliation in the Ecclesial Domain / A Right to Irreconcilability? / From Atonement to Peace? / Apologising for Colonial Violence / Facing Postcolonial Entanglement and the Challenge of Responsibility / Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / From Truth to Reconciliation / About the Authors. |