Comparative politics
Discourse, normative change and the quest for reconciliation in global politics
by Judith Renner
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This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding. After retracing the emergence of the reconciliation discourse from South Africa to the global level, the book demonstrates how implementing reconciliation in post-conflict societies is a highly political practice which entails potentially undesirable consequences for the post-conflict societies to which it is deployed. Specifically, the book shows how the reconciliation discourse brings about the marginalisation and neutralisation of political claims and identities of local post-conflict populations by producing these societies as being composed of the 'victims' and 'perpetrators' of past human rights violations which are first and foremost in need of reconciliation and healing. This book will interest students and teachers of transitional justice and international relations.
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Manchester University Press
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date March 2013
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719088025 / 071908802X
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Pages208
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234x156 mm
- IllustrationLine drawings, black & white
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