Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice After Civil Conflict

by Biggar, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780878403943
• ISBN10: 0878403949
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

No one can deny how September 11, 2001, has altered our understandings of "Peace" and "Justice" and "Civil Conflict." Those have become words with startling new life in our vocabularies. Yet "making" peace and "doing" justice must remain challenges that are among the highest callings of humanity-especially in a terror-heightened world. Nigel Biggar, Christian ethicist and editor of this now more than ever "must read" (

Author Biography

Nigel Biggar is professor of theology at the University of Leeds, where he directs the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Ethics, and Public Life

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction	xv
PART I. Concepts
Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose?	3	(22)
Nigel Biggar
Where and When in Political Life Is Justice Served by Forgiveness?	25	(20)
Donald W. Shriver
Politics and Forgiveness	45	(20)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues	65	(22)
Tuomas Forsberg
PART II. Dimensions
Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions	87	(14)
Martha Minow
National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission	101	(24)
Hugo Van Der Merwe
Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace Process	125	(30)
Marie Smyth
Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence	155	(22)
Brandon Hamber
PART III. Cases
Passion, Constraint, Law, and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy	177	(32)
Alexandra Barahona De Brito
War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala	209	(26)
Rachel Sieder
Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission	235	(16)
Charles Villa-Vicencio
Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition	251	(36)
Stef Vandeginste
Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the Past	287	(44)
Terence McCaughey
PART IV. Conclusion
Conclusion	307	(18)
Nigel Biggar
Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11	325	(6)
Nigel Biggar
Index	331