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11 Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: witnessing, retribution and domestic reform John Borneman conditions that might make possible reconciliation after ethnic cleansing? This chapter addresses reconciliation in light of specific ethnic cleansings and ‘ethnicisations’, with a focus on the most recent example in Bosnia. It neither elaborates a specific case nor makes specific historical–cultural comparisons. The potential contribution is theoretical, specifying psycho-social terms and processes integral to reconciliation after violent conflicts. The
13 From peace to reconciliation Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern, TD Introduction Coming as it did at a pivotal time in the political fortunes of Northern Ireland, Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern’s lecture ‘From peace to reconciliation’, on 3 April 2007, provided a unique range of insights into what had, by any reckoning, been a historic series of events. A solicitor by profession, by 2007 he was a highly experienced politician, having represented County Louth for Fianna Fail since 1987. After serving as a Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and
The global reconciliation discourse performs in particular on the local level as it is here, in post-conflict societies, that the reconciliation discourse is deployed as a tool of post-conflict peacebuilding. This chapter focuses on the example of Sierra Leone in order to explore how the global reconciliation discourse is brought to new local contexts and how it performs there. In particular, it aims to
The spread of the reconciliation language as examined in the last chapter is not the only manifestation of the proliferation of reconciliation discourse, but it is accompanied by the diffusion of a corresponding set of reconciliation practices in global politics. More specifically, the proliferation of the language of reconciliation through truth-telling in truth commissions was paralleled by the
12 Responsibility, justice, and reconciliation in Northern Ireland Cillian McGrattan In an August 2014 interview, which was widely covered north and south of the border, the US diplomat and former senior aide to Bill Clinton, Nancy Soderberg, launched a blistering attack on Northern Ireland’s political class. Soderberg accused Northern Irish politicians of an ‘abysmal abdication of leadership’ in relation to what she saw as their failure to develop a coherent policy programme. They were ‘far too stuck in the past’, she asserted, which made ‘progress vulnerable
6 Europe as a force for creative reconciliation President Pat Cox Introduction As he reminded his audience, when Pat Cox delivered his lecture on ‘Europe as a force for creative reconciliation’ on 26 April 2004, the reunification of the continent with the accession to the European Union of ten new members was only six days away. As President of the European Parliament, he was privileged to watch this historic development from a unique vantage point. In June 1989, when he was first elected to the Parliament, such a development was barely imaginable. The European
IN the preceding chapter the five central strands of the theory of critical idealism articulated over the course of this book are woven together. The first appears for the first time in the introduction. It is indicated there that the most radical route to reconciliation between the various factions of humanity, and hence to positive freedom for citizens, can be ascertained by comparing the different
philosophy provides the broad outlines of a theory of critical idealism that bears directly upon the organisation of the labour process and the first condition of legitimate law concerning humanity and external nature. Toward the end it will be seen that in the first instance legitimate law requires reconciliation between humanity and external nature, and that this, in turn, requires a form of libertarian socialism whose basic contours
Dramatising the TRC 2 Dramatising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: the role of theatre practitioners in exploring the past Throw a clatter of memories at the mirror of your life and watch the pieces scatter on the ground. There’s no pattern. They glint in the shadows, demanding inspection as you hesitate to choose which one you’ll pick up first. Some pieces choose themselves, however much you try to avoid them. (Hugh Lewin, 2011: 17) The end of apartheid brought with it many changes, including changes to the memories with which we engage. The TRC and
4147 Inglis–Are the Irish different_BB_Layout 1 29/07/2014 09:27 Page 166 16 Conflict and reconciliation in Northern Ireland Joseph Ruane On 2 December 2012 Belfast City Council decided by majority vote to cease flying the Union Jack over City Hall every day of the year and to fly it on just eighteen, designated days. The pressure for change came from the nationalist parties on the council, Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), who had not wanted it flown at all. The agreement to fly it on designated days only was a compromise to secure