Simpson Truth recovery in Northern Ireland

Critically interpreting the past
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-344-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

This book is a unique analysis of truth recovery in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It proposes a new model of victim and perpetrator dialogue that is entirely victim-centred, suggesting that only a ‘moral bottom line’ in which violence is dismissed as universally wrong can assists in the effective democratic reconstruction of Northern Ireland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, Kirk

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of boxes
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The conflict in Northern Ireland: a contextual and thematic analysis
2. Truth Commissions and dealing with the past
3. Voices silenced, voices rediscovered: victims of violence and the reclamation of language in transitional societies
4. Victims of political violence: a Habermasian model of truth recovery
5. Memorialisation in post-conflict societies: critically interpreting the past
6. Conclusion
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simpson Kirk:
Dr Kirk Simpson is RCUK Post Doctoral Fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of UlsterDr Kirk Simpson is a Lecturer at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster