Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century
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Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century
（Erinnerungskulturen = Memory cultures, Vol. 2）
Transcript Verlag, c2012
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Contents of Works
- Transnational civil society's contribution to reconciliation: an introduction / Birgit Schwelling
- "A question of humanity in its entirety" : Armin T. Wegner as intermediary of reconciliation between Germans and Armenians in interwar German civil society / Charlton Payne
- Mea culpas, negotiations, apologias : revisiting the "apology" of Turkish intellectuals / Ayda Erbal
- Soldiers' reconciliation : René Cassin, the International Labour Office, and the search for human rights / Jay Winter
- "A blessed act of oblivion" : human rights, European unity and postwar reconciliation / Marco Duranti
- Franco-German rapprochement and reconciliation in the ecclesial domain : the meeting of bishops in Bühl (1949) and the Congress of Speyer (1950) / Ulrike Schröber
- A right to irreconcilability? Oradour-sur-Glane, German-French relations and the limits of reconciliation after World War II / Andea Erkenbrecher
- From atonement to peace? Aktion Sühnezeichen, German-Israeli relations and the role of youth in reconciliation discourse and practice / Christiane Wienand
- Apologising for colonial violence : the documentary film Regresso a Wiriyamu, transitional justice, and Portuguese-Mozambican decolonisation / Robert Stock
- Facing postcolonial entanglement and the challenge of responsibility : actor constellations between Namibia and Germany / Reinhart Kössler
- Political reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / Melinda Sutton
- From truth to reconciliation : the global diffusion of truth commissions / Anne K. Krüger
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How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.
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