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Author Friedman, Rebekka, author.

Title Competing memories : truth and reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Peru / Rebekka Friedman
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Definitions -- 1 Justice and Reconciliation in Enduring Conflicts -- Reconciliation in Protracted Social Conflicts -- Procedural Reconciliation: Cumulative Repair and a Dynamic Contextual Approach -- Methods and Case Selection: Legacies of Violence and Agency in Sierra Leone and Peru -- Ways Forward and Outline of the Book -- 2 Contextual Variances, Transitional Justice, and Peace-Building: A Historical Overview
Cautious Approaches: Regime Transitions in the Southern ConeGlobal Involvement in Transitional Justice: Fact-Finding and Didactic Truth Commissions -- The South African Participatory TRC -- Intrastate Conflicts and Conflict Transformation: Mixed-Method TRCs -- Conclusions -- 3 Procedural Reconciliation -- Conceptualizing Reconciliation -- Transformative Reconciliation -- Shortcomings of Transformative Reconciliation -- Procedural Reconciliation -- Procedural Reconciliation as Agency-Based and Pragmatic -- Procedural Reconciliation as a Generalized Societal Process
Procedural Reconciliation as Open EndedNormative Foundations of Procedural Reconciliation -- Restorative Justice -- Integration and Spillover -- Components of Procedural Reconciliation -- Shared Norms and Discourses -- Inclusivity and Pluralism -- Conclusions -- 4 Underdevelopment, Peace-Building, and Marginalization: The Establishment of a Restorative Agenda in Sierra Leone -- The Sierra Leonean Armed Conflict: 1991â#x80;#x93;2002 -- The Establishment of a Multipronged Transitional Justice Approach -- Context and Aims: Legitimizing a Restorative Agenda -- Methodology
ReconciliationNarrative -- Testimony -- Conclusions -- 5 Localism and Pragmatic Solidarity in Sierra Leone -- Civic Trust, Pragmatic Solidarity, and a Crisis of Expectations -- Civil Society, Community Reconciliation, and Localism -- Navigating Agency: Individual Responsibility and Community Reconciliation -- Conclusions -- 6 The Shining Path and Political Violence: The Establishment of a Punitive Human Rightsâ#x80;#x93;Based Approach -- History of the Conflict -- The Establishment of a Multipronged Transitional Justice Approach
Historical Context and Aims: Advancing a Punitive Human Rights AgendaProcedures and Methodology -- Reconciliation -- Narrative -- Testimonies -- Conclusions -- 7 Memory Activism and the Politics of the Past -- Political Violence and Civic Trust: Justice as a Precondition for Reconciliation -- Historical Memory and Solidarity -- Civil Society and Memory Politics in Post-CVR Peru -- Responsibility and Omissions: Reconciliation without Belligerents? -- Conclusions -- 8 Conclusions: Context, Transformation, and Holism in Transitional Justice
Summary "The aftermath of modern conflicts, deeply rooted in political, economic and social structures, leaves pervasive and often recurring legacies of violence. Addressing past injustice is therefore fundamental not only for societal well-being and peace, but also for future conflict prevention. In recent years, truth and reconciliation commissions have become important but contentious mechanisms for conflict resolution and reconciliation. This book fills a significant gap, examining the importance of context within transitional justice and peace-building. It lays out long-term and often unexpected indirect effects of formal and informal justice processes. Offering a novel conceptual understanding of 'procedural reconciliation' on the societal level, it features an in-depth study of commissions in Peru and Sierra Leone, providing a critical analysis of the contribution and challenges facing transitional justice in post-conflict societies. It will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, international relations, human rights and conflict studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sierra Leone. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Peru. Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación.
SUBJECT Peru. Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación fast
Sierra Leone. Truth and Reconciliation Commission fast
Subject Truth commissions -- Sierra Leone
Truth commissions -- Peru
Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Sierra Leone
Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- Peru
Transitional justice -- Sierra Leone
Transitional justice -- Peru
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Politics and government
Reconciliation -- Political aspects
Transitional justice
Truth commissions
SUBJECT Sierra Leone -- Politics and government -- 1961- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122358
Peru -- Politics and government -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011000118
Subject Peru
Sierra Leone
Form Electronic book
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