Reconciliation(s) transitional justice in postconflict societies

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Joanna R. Quinn -- Forgiveness as righteousness / Laurence Thomas -- Towards the healing of history: an exploration of the relation between pardon and peace / Nicholas Frayling -- Dialectic of acknowledgment / Trudy Govier -- Transitional justice in Morocco: lifting the veil on a hidden face / Veerle Opgenhaffen and Mark Freeman -- Traditional justice and legal pluralism in transitional context: The case of Rwanda's Gacaca Courts / Rosemary Nagy -- Truth and the challenge of reconciliation in Guatemala / Anita Isaacs -- Contact and culture: mechanisms of reconciliation in schools of North Ireland and Israel / Caitlin Donnelly and Joanne Hughes -- What reconciliation? Traditional mechanisms of acknowledgment in Uganda / Joanne R. Quinn -- Survey of reconciliation processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina : the gap between people and politics / Valery Perry -- Tensions between human rights and the politics of reconciliation : a South African case study / Stephanus Du Toit -- Interethnic reconciliation in Lebanon: after the Civil War / Samar El-Masri -- Beyond coexistence: Towards a working definition of reconciliation / Brandon Hamber and Gráinne Kelly.

'Reconciliation(s)' considers the definition of the concept of reconciliation itself, focusing on the definitional dialogue that arises from the attempts to situate reconciliation within a theoretical and analytical framework.