Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory: Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st CenturyBirgit Schwelling 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. |
Contents
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RECONCILIATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS | 95 |
RECONCILIATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II | 141 |
RECONCILIATION IN POSTCOLONIAL SETTINGS | 237 |
COMMISSIONS IN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE | 313 |
About the Autors | 369 |
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