Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
List of contributors
1. Introduction: Reconciliation: Civil war by other means
	Notes
	Bibliography
PART I: Post-civil war reconciliation in our time
	2. Reconciliation challenges in post-genocide Rwanda
		Introduction
		The brutality of the genocide and other serious crimes
		One-sided transitional justice
		The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
		Rwanda’s ordinary courts
		Gacaca courts
		Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
		Monopoly of power by one ethnic group
		Consensus democracy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	3. War and peace in Colombia: The impact of the peace accords on local communities
		The origins of the war with the FARC
		Armed conflict beyond the Cold War
		The 2012–2016 peace process with the FARC
		The human toll of armed conflict
		Community-based approaches to peace and reconciliation
		ARDECAN
		FUSFI
		Agroarte
		Three examples of peace from below
		Concluding remarks
		NOTES
		Bibliography
	4. Political violence, civil war and the paths of national reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire
		Transitional justice and reconciliation in the literature
		Côte d’Ivoire, from prosperity to poverty and political divisions: the pathways to civil war
		Transitional justice in Côte d’Ivoire: coping with international norms under the gaze of the former colonial power
		A tradition of instrumental approaches that leads to divisions: experiences from the Reconciliation Forum (2001) and the Commission of Truth, Dialogue and Reconciliation (2011–2015)
		The forum of reconciliation, the “Estates-General of the Republic” or “general amnesty”?
		A socioemotional learning falling apart, or, when each camp fixates upon certain symbolic representations of the conflict
		A distributive learning impeded by political exclusion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART II: Problems of reconciliation in twentieth-century Europe
	5. The Russian Civil War: Is national reconciliation possible?
		Notes
		Bibliography
	6. Franco’s peace: Fighting the Spanish Civil War, 1939–1975
		NOTES
		Bibliography
	7. The Italian Social Republic, the Second World War and the memory of the “vanquished”
		“Exiles in the homeland”
		July 25, September 8, 1943 and civil war
		The Fascist choice
		A world that ends
		“Us” and “them”: the end of the war, post-insurrectional violence and concentration camps
		The memories of the “vanquished”: private memory
		The memory of the “vanquished”: public memory
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART III: Memory and reconciliation after the US Civil War
	8. Lee returns to the Capitol: A case study in reconciliation and its limits
		Notes
		Bibliography
	9. The persistence of memory: African Americans and transitional justice efforts in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
		The Gettysburg campaign, civilian trauma and origins of memory
		Reparations: the gendered politics of reunification
		Race, truth, and the path toward reconciliation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	10. No more shall the winding rivers be red: The role of regionalism in sectional reconciliation
		Notes
		Bibliography
	11. Beyond memory: The U.S. South and the emotional politics of reconciliation
		NOTES
		Bibliography
PART IV: The US Civil War in transnational perspective
	12. To “heal the wounded spirit”: Former Confederates’ international perspective on Reconstruction and reconciliation
		Notes
		Bibliography
	13. “Save our heritage”: Contested reconciliation of mid-nineteenth-century separatist movements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	14. Reconciliation as a political strategy: The United States after its Civil War
		Notes
		Bibliography
PART V: Processes of reconciliation
	15. Fostering peace after civil war: When should civil society participate?
		Civil society and resolving civil wars: the case of UNSCR1325
		Hindering the cause of peace? Civil society at the bargaining table
		Delays to the peace process
		Unjustified assumption of unified interests
		Disappointed expectations
		Is it all in the Timing? Civil society and the implementation of peace agreements
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	16. United we heal, divided we reconcile: Group solidarity and the problem of status after civil conflicts
		On conflict, trauma, and reconciliation
		Civil conflicts and victimization
		On status
		Healing, reconciliation and the problem of status
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index