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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter 1: Theorizing Reconciliation
  7. Chapter 2: Key Normative Concepts
  8. Chapter 3: Political Society
  9. Chapter 4: Institutional and Legal Responses: Trials and Truth Commissions
  10. Chapter 5: Civil Society and Reconciliation
  11. Chapter 6: Interpersonal Reconciliation
  12. Chapter 7: Conclusion
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index

Index

Accountability, 3, 9, 13, 16, 22, 24, 25, 41–48, 131; and amnesty, 107–111; challenges, 45–48; and civil society, 155–156; deontological, 41–43; and interpersonal reconciliation, 178; teleological, 43–45; and trials, 94–107; and truth commissions, 112–113, 115–117; and recognition, 48; and respect, 32

Ackerman, Bruce, 8

Acknowledgment, victim. See Recognition, victim

Aguilar, Paloma, 70

Alden, Chris, 9

Alexander, Jeffrey C., 138

Algeria, 109

Alie, Joe A. D., 132

Ambos, Kai, 99

Amnesty, 107–111; conditional, 110

Amnesty International, 131, 187n3

Amstutz, Mark, 187n.1

Andean Commission of Jurists (CAJ), 151, 155

Annan, Kofi, 109

Apology, 79–91; challenges, 86–89; and Christian tradition, 80–81; contributions, 84–85; as moral redress, 81–82; official apologies, 82–90; as practical redress, 82; and state legitimacy, 89–90

Arato, Andrew, 68, 77, 144–146, 148

Arendt, Hannah, 30, 105–106, 189n3, 192n.3

Argentina, 58, 69, 75, 96, 108, 109, 111, 113–114, 116, 118, 123, 154–155

Argentine Alliance for Refounding the Nation, 152

Argentine National Commission on the Disappeared, 113

Ariko, Charles, 110

Aristotle, 41–42, 163–164

Aron, Raymond, 99

Asociación pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH), 151

Association of the Relatives of the Disappeared in Peru (ANFASEP), 150, 151

Auschwitz trials, 105

Australia, 6

Aylwin, Patricio, 83–90

Baines, Erin K. 129

Baker, Bruce, 194n6

Ball, Howard, 92

Bangladesh, 5

Barahona de Brito, Alexandra, 4, 70, 77, 137

Barkan, Elazar, 7, 191n6

Bartoli, Andrea, 10

Barton, Charles K., 194n4

Bashingantahe, 131

Bass, Gary, 97

Bassin, Ari S., 192n5

Beah, Ishmael, 63

Beccaria, Cesare, 44

Belgium, 96

Ben Gurion, David, 106

Benhabib, Seyla, 50, 60–61

Benjamin, Jessica, 49

Bentham, Jeremy, 44

Bhargava, Rajeev, 12, 22–23

Biafra, 5

Bird, Colin, 189nl

Boraine, Alex, 112

Borneman, John, 41

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 95, 157, 165, 167, 171–172, 175, 192n1, 194n1

Botman, Russell H., 166

Bourdieu, Pierre, 88

Bowman, James, 79

Brazil, 8, 109, 111, 153

Brazil: Never Again, 153–154, Brilmayer, Lea, 5

Brooks, Roy, 191n6

Brudholm, Thomas, 162–163, 164

Burg, Steven, 6

Burnet, Jennie, 132

Buruma, Ian, 191n10

Burundi, 131–132

Bystanders, 47, 149–152, 189n6

Cambodia, 9, 36–37, 58, 95, 125, 155, 192n1

Campaign for Good Governance (CGG), 155–156, 194n6

Canada, 6

Casarjian, Robin, 83

Cassesse, Antonio, 103

Catholic Church, 137, 142, 146, 154

Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), 155

Chad, 116

Chakravarti, Sonali, 49

Chechnya, 5

Chile, 58, 70, 75, 83–90, 108, 109, 111, 114, 116, 118, 123, 137, 141, 154, 158, 163, 167, 173

Civil society, 22, 78, 136–159; 183; and accountability, 145; 146, 155; 156; 159; and challenges, 156–159; contributions, 148–156; and critical history, 152–153; defined, 138; and definition of actor categories, 149–152; and deliberation, 144–149; discourse theory of, 143–147; and interpersonal reconciliation, 168; and policy recommendations, 155–156; and recognition, 137, 146, 147, 149, 150–151, 153, 156, 158; and respect, 145, 147, 148–150, 157, 158, 159; and rule of law, 137, 142–143, 145, 146, 148, 149, 155, 158, 159; “self-limiting” theory of, 141–143; and truth, 153, 154, 158

Cohen, Jean, 68, 77, 144, 146, 148

Cohen, Stanley, 80

Colonialism, 6–7

Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH), 116, 154

Commission on Human Rights (Chile), 155

Concannon, Jr., Brian, 105

Couper, David, 83

Crocker, David, 9, 16, 34, 60, 78, 113, 116, 148, 156, 189n3, 193n1

Cristina H., 163–165, 168, 178, 194n1

Curandeiros, 10, 130

Dahl, Robert, 139

Damaska, Mirjan, 98

Danner, Allison Marston, 99

Darley, John, 81

Darwall, Stephen, 189n1

Das, Veena, 177

Dawson, John, 188n8

De Greiff, Pablo, 56, 193n10

De Vito, Daniela, 54

Deliberation, 59–62, 71–73, 76–79; challenges to, 76–78, 156–159; and civil society, 144–149; and elites, 70–74; and reconciliation, 25–26; and respect, 31; and the rule of law, 57–62

Dembour, Marie-Benedicte, 100–101

Derrida, Jacques, 166

Diamond, Larry, 68, 190n1

Dias-Lambranca, Beatrice, 130

Digeser, Peter E., 19, 83

Dignity, 3, 24, 29–33, 168; and accountability, 35, 42–44, 48; and apology, 81; and deliberation, 145; and recognition, 48, 49, 52; and traditional justice mechanisms, 132; and truth commissions, 93, 97, 112

Dipardo, Elizabeth, 192n5

Domingo, Pilar, 190n13

Dorff, Elliot, 191n7

Douglas, Lawrence, 101, 105

Drumbl, Mark, 4

Dryzek, John, 145

Du Bois-Pedain, Antje, 192n6

Dugard, John, 108

East Timor, 5, 95, 116, 120, 153, 192n1

Ecuador, 127

Edwards, Bob, 193n1

Ehrenberg, John, 138

Eichmann, Adolf, 101, 105, 106

El Salvador, 55, 58, 111, 116–117, 127

Elites, 21–22, 66–91; accountability, 69, 70, 78, 90; and apologies, 82–90; consensus and exclusion, 76–79; and critical history, 76–77; and deliberation, 70–74; and recognition, 67, 69, 73–74, 77, 78, 82, 84; and respect, 71, 81, 84, 90; and the rule of law, 70–73; and tolerance, 85; and transitional constraints, 69–70; and truth, 77–78, 80, 85

Elster, Jon, 4

Emezue, Sidney, 5

England, Harri, 9

Enright, Robert, 166

Fletcher, George, 47

Fletcher, Laurel, 117

Foley, Michael, 138, 193n1

Forgetting, 7–12, 188n4

Forgiveness, 15–17, 19, 165–169, 191n7

France, 191n4

Fraser, Nancy, 50–51, 53, 72, 146, 189n9

Freedman, Suzanne, 166

Freeman, Mark, 4, 19, 113, 115, 127, 192n7

Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH), 105

Fuller, Lon, 102

Fullinwider, Robert K. 138

Gacaca, 126, 129–131

Gagnon, Valére Philip, 6

Garretón, Manuel Antonio, 34

Gibney, Mark, 191n6

Gill, Graeme, 136

Giner-Sorolla, Roger, 161

Glover, Jonathan, 162

Goffman, Erving, 81, 88

Golding, Martin, 82, 191n8

Golsan, Richard A., 191n4

González-Enríquez, Carmen, 70

Goodin, 56

Govier, Trudy, 84, 85, 167, 191n8

Graybill, Lyn, 15

Gross, Jan, 11

Guatemala, 55, 58, 111, 116–117, 127, 149–150, 154

Guatemalan Commission on Historical Clarification (CEH), 116, 154

Guilt, 161

Gulu District NGO Forum, 155

Habermas, Jürgen, 27, 61–62, 143, 147, 157

Halbwachs, Maurice, 76

Hampshire, Stuart, 13

Hampton, Jean, 57, 194n3

Harneit-Sievers, Axel, 5

Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus, 102

Hartman, Geofrey, 191n5

Harvey, Jean, 83

Haslam, Emily, 100–101

Hatzfeld, Jen, 63

Havel, Vaclav, 143

Hayner, Priscilla, 113, 127, 192n7

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 188–189n9

Helmick, Raymond C., 188n5

Herman, Judith, 190n10

Hill, Thomas E., 194n3

Him, Chanrithy, 37–38

Hirschman, Albert O., 6

Hodgkinson, Virgina, 138

Holmgren, Margaret, 87

Honneth, Axel, 49–52, 189n8

Human Rights Watch, 131, 142, 187n3

Humphrey, Michael, 193n9

Ignatieff, Michael, 74, 90, 114

Igreja, Victor, 130

Ikpeze, Nnaemeka, 5

Ingelaere, Bert, 131

Institutional level of reconciliation, 22, 92–135. Also see Tribunals; Truth commissions

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 124

Interpersonal level of reconciliation, 22, 160–179; 183; and accountability, 165, 171, 178; and civil society, 168; and forgiveness, 165–169; and partial pardon, 169–179; and recognition, 176–177; and resentment, 162–165; and respect, 169–179; and rule of law, 170, 178; and truth, 167, 176–177, 178; and vengeance, 162–165

International Criminal Court (ICC), 93, 96, 101, 110–111, 124, 129

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), 93, 98–99, 102, 103, 104, 105

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), 93, 98–99, 102, 105, 129, 130

Iraq, 95, 192n1

Jasmina I., 175, 194n1

Jaspers, Karl, 151–152

Johnson, James, 190n3

Johnston, Douglas, 80

Joignet, Alfred, 77, 190–191n13

Joinet, Louis, 35, 187n2

Joint Criminal Enterprise (JCE), 99–100

Jones, Adam, 54

Juan Carlos L., 173–175, 194n1

Jung, Courtney, 6

Justice, 41–42, 92–135; restorative, 93, 111, 119–120; retributive, 43–48, 93, 119–120; “traditional,” 128–133. Also see Accountability; Recognition, victim

Kagame, Paul, 47

Kant, Immanuel, 29, 42, 43, 97; Kantianism individualism, 63

Karadžiimages, Radovan, 99

Keane, John, 138

Kelsall, Tim, 121

Kelsen, Hans, 102

Kiernan, Ben, 1

Kirchheimer, Otto, 44

Kirkby, Coel, 131

Kiss, Elizabeth, 113, 115

Kleinfeld Belton, Rachel, 57

Korsgaard, Christine, 31

Kosovo, 95, 192n.1

Krog, Antjie, 112

Kuper, Leo, 5

Kuron, Jacek, 139

Kymlicka, Will, 50

Laclau, Ernesto, 27, 190n15

Lahav, Pnina, 106

Lang, Berel, 167, 168

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 190n13

Lederach, John Paul, 187n1

Lefort, Claude, 190n15

Lehman, Paul, 191n7

Lehning, Percy B., 5

Leo, John, 79

Lester, I., 127

Lewis, Clive Staples (C. S.), 162

Liberia, 75, 116

Lifton, Robert Jay, 63

Linden, Ian, 187n2

Linz, Juan, 68, 71, 77

Lira, Elizabeth, 90

Llewellyn, Jennifer, 115

Locke, John, 32

Lomasky, Loren, 56

Lord's Resistance Army, 110, 111

Loveman, Brian, 90

Macedo, Stephen, 193n12

Mackintosh, L. R., 191n7

Mahir P., 165, 194n1

Mamdani, Mahmood, 135

Mani, Rama, 10, 57–58

Manin, Bernard, 190n16

Manning, Carrie, 9

Maria Helena C., 167, 172, 194n1

Marisela P., 173–174, 194n1

Martínez, Javier, 141

Martinez, Jenny S., 99

Marty, Martin, 80, 88, 166

Mason, T. David, 70

Mato oput, 130

McAdams, James A., 4, 70

Meernik, James D., 70

Memory, 67, 73–76; and Berlin Holocaust memorial, 191n5; and civil society, 154–155; and interpersonal reconciliation, 176; memory sites, 67, 74–76, 85; and respect, 176. Also see Truth

Méndez, Juan, 34

Mendus, Susan, 32

Menéndez-Carrión, Ampáro, 77, 190n13

Merwin, William, 184–185

Michlic, Joanna, 11

Michnik, Adam, 139, 141–142, 146

Miller, Donald, 177

Miller, Lourna Touryan, 177

Miloševicimages, Slobodan, 99

Minear, Richard, 106

Minow, Martha, 2, 86, 97

Moon, Claire, 16–17, 36, 38, 187n1

Moses, A. Dirk, 191n5

Mouffe, Chantal, 31, 59–61

Moulian, Tomás, 158

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), 142

Mozambique, 9–11, 77, 109, 130, 132

Muller-Fahrenholz, Geiko, 83, 188n6

Murphy, Jeffrie, 9, 42, 162, 194n3

Narayan, Uma, 169

National Coordinator for Human Rights (CNDDHH), 153, 194n4

Neal, Arthur, 82–83

Nehushtan, Yossi, 32

Neier, Aryeh, 97

Nersessian, David L., 4

Nesiah, Vasuki, 120

New Zealand, 6

Newey, Glen, 32

Nicaragua, 71, 111

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 40, 75, 152, 162, 188n4

Nino, Carlos, 57, 190n16

Nobles, Melissa, 85

Nora, Pierre, 67

Nordstrom, Carolyn, 10

North, Joanna, 87

Norval, Aletta, 187n1

Nozick, Robert, 97, 140, 162

Nuremberg Tribunal, 92, 94, 102, 103, 105, 126

Nyatagodien, Ridwan, 82–83

O'Donnell, Guillermo, 69, 136

Ojera Latigo, James, 132

Okin, Susan Moller, 51

Orentlicher, Diane, 98

Orr, Wendy, 190n10

Osiel, Mark, 36, 73, 101, 183

Pardon, 19; partial, 169–175

Paris, Erna, 191n4

Partition, Political, 5–6

Perkumpulan Hak, 153

Perrelli, Carina, 141

Peru, 55, 108, 109, 111, 113–117, 151, 153, 155

Peruvian Association of History and Reconciliation, 152

Petar L., 171–172, 194n1

Petersen, Robin, 166

Petersen, Rodney, 16

Philip, Mark, 73

Plunkett, Mark, 57

Poland, 11, 142

Political society, 21–22, 66–91, 127; 182; differences from civil society, 68–69; and transitional constraints, 69–70. Also see Elites

Polonsky, Antony, 11

Post, Robert, 190n2

Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI), 154

Prosecutions. See Tribunals

Prunier, Gerard, 97

Putnam, Robert, 193n1

Raboteau trial, 105

Rawls, John, 27

Recognition, victim, 24, 48–57, 131–33; 189n9; and accountability, 48; and apologies, 84; and civil society, 150; collective material, 55, 190n11; collective symbolic, 54; individual material, 56; individual symbolic, 54; and interpersonal reconciliation, 176–177; and partial pardon, 172; and prosecutions, 97, 103–104; and respect, 172

Reconciliation: defined, 3, 29, 63–65; and democratic theory, 26–27; “minimalist,” 12–14, 18–20; “maximalist,” 12, 14–20; multivalent theory, 20–27; as respect 20–27; univalent theories, 18–20; 181–182

Reno, William, 73

Reparations, 49, 53–57, 113, 118–119, 178, 190n11. Also see Recognition victim

Resentment, 162–165

Respect, 22–23, 29–33, 133–132, 180–181; and accountability, 32; and deliberation, 148; and interpersonal reconciliation, 169–179; and partial pardon, 169–175; and phenomenological truth, 176; and tolerance, 170–171

Retribution, 42–48; Also see Accountability

Revenge, 43, 96, 97; and interpersonal reconciliation, 162–165

Rique, Julio, 166

Ristchl, Albrecht, 191n7

Robertson, Geoffrey, 97, 115

Roht-Arriaza, Naomi, 155, 190n11

Roth, Kenneth, 98

Roxstrom, Erik, 191n6

Rule of law, 25, 57–62; 182; and civil society, 149; and deliberation, 149; institutional dimension, 57–59; normative dimension, 59–62; and trials, 96–98; and truth commissions, 119

Rwanda, 47, 69, 125, 126, 129–132, 193n12

Sampson, Cynthia, 80

Samuels, Kirsti, 190n12

Sandel, Michael, 27

Savage, Kirk, 74

Scanlon, Thomas, 32

Scarry, Elaine, 190n10

Schaap, Andrew, 23–24, 84, 184, 187n1

Shabas, William, 121

Scheler, Max, 162

Scher, Steven, 81

Scheuerman, William, 57

Schmitter, Phillipe C., 69, 136

Schreiter, Robert, 188n5

Schutzstaffel (SS), 105

Schwan, Gesine, 8

Searle, John, 81

Sen, Amartya, 190n14

Seré Association for Promoting Memory and Life, 154

Shame, 161

Shklar, Judith, 44, 97

Short, Damien, 187n1

Shoup, Paul, 6

Shriver, Donald, 166, 168, 175

Sider, Rachel, 190n13

Sierra Leone, 70, 75, 95, 109, 116, 120–121, 132, 155, 192n1

Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 120–121, 124

Smith, Nick, 191n6

Smith, R. H., 161

Snyder, Jack, 108

Solomon, Robert C., 164–165

Somalia, 58

South Africa, 14–15, 34, 58, 108, 110, 113–118, 123, 125, 127, 191n4

South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 14, 108, 116–117, 189n3, 193n8

Soyinka, Wole, 11–12

Spain, 69, 77, 96

Special Court for Sierra Leone, 120–121

Sriram, Chandra Lekha, 96

Steel, Ronald, 79

Stepan, Alfred, 68, 77

Stover, Eric, 104

Streich, Gregory, 145

Suchocki, Marjorie, 83

Suleyman, L., 167, 194n1

Summerfield, Derek, 104, 190n10

Szymusiak, Moldya, 63, 189n4

Tadiimages, Duško, 99

Taft, Lee, 79

Tavuchis, Nicholas, 19, 80–81

Taylor, Charles, 27, 49–51

Taylor, John G., 5

Teitel, Ruti, 44

Timerman, Jacobo, 54

Timor-Leste. See East Timor

Tokyo Tribunal, 92, 106, 126

Tolerance, 32–33, 148, 170–171; and interpersonal reconciliation, 170–171

Torpey, John C., 4

Transitions, 69–70, 95, 126

Trials. See Tribunals

Tribunals, 45–48, 93, 94–107; 182–183; and amnesty, 107–111; criticisms, 98–104; and future unrest, 127; hybrid, 95–96; and institutionalization, 122–124; and judiciary, 124; justifications, 97–98; and mode of transition, 126; and perpetrator population, 125; and resources, 126–127; and respect, 107; and truth, 105–107; and truth commissions, 116, 119–122. Also see Accountability; Justice: retributive Trust, 72–73

Truth, 24, 33–41; and amnesty, 110; critical, 40, 75–76, 77–78, 85, 152–153; factual 35–37, 97, 105–107; narrative, 39–41, 176; phenomenological 37–39, 100–101, 112; 176; and truth commissions, 112–115. Also see Memory Truth commissions, 93, 111–122; 182–183; and accountability, 115–117; and challenges, 115–119; defined, 111–112; and future unrest, 127; institutional reform, 117; and institutionalization, 122–124; and judiciary, 124; and mode of transition, 126; naming perpetrators, 116–117; and perpetrator population, 125; public hearings, 117–118; and recognition, 117–118; and resources, 126–127; and respect, 113, 128; and rule of law, 119; and trials, 119–122; and truth, 112–115

Tuol Sleng, 155

Turner, Victor, 104

Tutu, Desmond, 14–15, 113, 128, 166, 167, 168, 172, 175; No Future without Forgiveness, 15, 19

Ubuntu, 15

Uganda, 110, 127, 129–130, 132, 155

“Unchopping a Tree,” 184–185

Ung, Loung, 189n4

Unger, Roberto, 27

United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 187n2

United Nations Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, 103

United Nations Genocide Convention (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide), 92

United Nations Human Rights Council, 189n2

United States, 6

United States Torture Victim Protection Act, 193n12

Uruguay, 69, 77, 111, 137

Van Boven, Theo, 35, 187n2, 189n2

Van Roermund, Bert, 110

Vengeance, 162–165. Also see Revenge

Verdeja, Ernesto, 49, 52, 79, 118, 166

Vergara, Ana Cecilia, 193n2

Verwoerd, Wilhelm, 85, 184, 191n8

Villa-Vicencio, Charles, 184

Vinjamuri, Leslie, 108

Volf, Miroslav, 31–32

Volkhart, Heinrich, 193n2

Waldorf, Lars, 131

Waldron, Jeremy, 7

Walker, Margaret, 165, 194n2

Walzer, Michael, 32, 46, 138

Warnke, Georgia, 51

Warren, Kay, 9

Weber, Max, 2

Weinstein, Harvey, 117

Weschler, Lawrence, 77

Western Sahara, 5

Whitehead, Laurence, 69, 136

Whitman, Rebecca, 105

Wilke, Christiane, 46

Wilson, Richard A., 56, 108

Women of Zimbabwe Arise, 142

World Bank, 157

Young, Iris, 145

Zimbabwe, 58, 127, 142

Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum, 142

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