Theorizing post-conflict reconciliation agonism, restitution and repair

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the agon of reconciliation / Alexander Keller Hirsch -- Agonism and the power of victim testimony / Sonali Chakravarti -- A critique of law's violence yet (never) to come: United Nations transitional justice policy and the (fore)closure of reconciliation / Erik Doxtader -- Rhetorics of reconciliation: shifting conflict paradigms in Northern Ireland / Adrian Little -- Fugitive reconciliation / Alexander Keller Hirsch -- Can human beings forgive? ethics and agonism in the face of divine violence / James Martel -- The unforgiving: reflections on the resistance to forgiveness after atrocity / Thomas Brudholm and Valerie Rosoux -- Senses of justice: bodies, language and space / Michael J Shapiro -- The other is dead: mourning, justice, and the politics of burial / Bonnie Honig -- The elements of political reconciliation / Ernesto Verdeja -- Confounded by recognition: the apology, the high court and the tent embassy in Australia / Paul Muldoon and Andrew Schaap.