{"product_id":"burying-the-past-9780878403943","title":"Burying the Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work asks \"How do newly democratic nations put to rest the conflicts of the past?\" Beginning with an examination of reconciliation on the political and psychological level, it covers the quality of peace as it has been forged in the civil conflicts in Rwanda, South Africa, Chile and Guatemala.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Part One: Concepts  1. Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose?Nigel Biggar  2. Where and When in Political Life Is Justice Served by Forgiveness?Donald W. Shriver  3. Politics and ForgivenessJean Bethke Elshtain  4. The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative IssuesTuomas ForsbergPart Two: Dimensions  5. Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights InstitutionsMartha Minow  6. National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionHugo van der Merwe  7. Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace ProcessMarie Smyth  8. Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political ViolenceBrandon Hamber  Part Three: Cases  9. Passion, Constraint, Law and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean DemocracyAlexandra Barahona de Brito  10. War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in GuatemalaRachel Sieder  11. Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionCharles Villa-Vicencio  12. Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Contextof Armed Conflict and Failed Political TransitionStef Vandeginste  13. Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the PastTerence McCaughey  Part Four: Conclusion  ConclusionNigel Biggar  Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11Nigel Biggar","brand":"Georgetown University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039029363031,"sku":"9780878403943","price":23.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780878403943.jpg?v=1750942333","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/burying-the-past-9780878403943","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}