Book description
This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding.
After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation. The prospects for social and political reconciliation are undermined when a ‘top-down’ approach is favoured over the ‘bottom-up strategy’- the prioritization of structural stability over societal well-being.
Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation explores the inextricable link between psychological recovery and socio-political reconciliation, and the political issues that dominate this relationship. Through an examination of the construction of social narratives about or for peace, the text offers a new perspective on peacebuilding, which challenges and questions the very nature of the dichotomy between ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches.
This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, social psychology, political science and IR in general.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation
- Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Peacebuilding, healing, reconciliation
- Part I Conceptual issues
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Part II Case Studies
- 3 Familial trauma in democratic Spain
- 4 Living to tell the story
- 5 Justice, healing and reconciliation in Cambodia
- 6 Exploring the role of apology in Cambodia’s reconciliation process
- 7 Governmental apologies and political reconciliation
- 8 Co-creating peace
- 9 Restorative moments
- 10 Towards peace and reconciliation after the Great War
- 11 Can history heal trauma?
- 12 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136491108
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