Justice and reconciliation after the violence

How do societies that have been wracked by violent conflict reconcile themselves to their recent history? This book investigates differing approaches to "policing" the past, ranging from mass purges at one end of the spectrum to collective social amnesia at the other.

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Main Author: Rigby, Andrew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder [Colo.] Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Reconciliation and forgiving the past
  • European purges after World War II
  • Spain: amnesty and amnesia
  • Truth and justice as far as possible: the Latin American experience
  • The post-1989 European "cleansing" process
  • South Africa: amnesty in return for truth
  • Palestine: collaboration and its consequences, a worst-case scenario?
  • Third-party intervention
  • Toward a culture of reconciliation.