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How can bitter enemies who have inflicted unspeakable acts of cruelty on each other live together in peace?
At a time in history when most organized violence consists of civil wars and when nations resort to genocidal policies, when horrendous numbers of civilians have been murdered, raped, or expelled from their homes, this book explores the possibility of forgiveness.
The contributors to this book draw upon the insights of history, political science, philosophy, and psychology to examine the trauma left in the wake of such actions, using, as examples, numerous case studies from the Holocaust, Russia, Cambodia, Guatemala, South Africa, and even Canada. They consider the fundamental psychological and philosophical issues that have to be confronted, offer insights about measures that can be taken to facilitate healing, and summarize what has been learned from previous struggles.
Dilemmas of Reconciliation is a pioneering effort that explores the extraordinary challenges that must be faced in the aftermath of genocide or barbarous civil wars. How these challenges of reconciliation are faced and resolved will affect not only the victims’ ability to go on with their lives but will impact regional stability and, ultimately, world peace.
Carol A.L. Prager is an associate professor of political science at the University of Calgary.|Trudy Govier is a Canadian philosopher with an enduring interest in the ethics and politics of peace. She is the author of the widely used text A Practical Study of Argument and several other books.
Table of Contents for Dilemmas of Reconciliation: Cases and Concepts, edited by Carol A.L. Prager and Trudy Govier
Introduction | Carol A.L. Prager
Overview | Michael R. Marrus
Perspectives and Approaches
1. Reckoning with Past Wrongs: A Normative Framework | David A. Crocker
2. What Is Acknowledgement and Why Is It Important? | Trudy Govier
3. Reconciliation for Realists | Susan Dwyer
4. Crime as Interpersonal Conflict: Reconciliation between Victim and Offender | Marc Forget
5. Mass Rape and the Concept of International Crime | Larry May
6. What Can Others Do? Foreign Governments and the Politics of Peacebuilding | Tom Keating
7. Aspects of Understanding and Judging Mass Human Rights Abuses | Carol A.L. Prager
Case Studies
8. We Are All Treaty People: History, Reconciliation, and the “Settler Problem” | Roger Epp
9. Toward a Response to Criticisms of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Wilhelm Verwoerd
10. Reimagining Guatemala: Reconciliation and the Indigenous Accords | Jim Handy
11. Coming to Terms with the Terror and History of Pol Pot’s Cambodia (1975–79) | David Chandler
12. National Reconciliation in Russia? | Janet Keeping
Conclusion
13. What We Have Learned | Justice Richard J. Goldstone
Index