Reconciliation and Justice after Genocide: A Theoretical Exploration

Parent, Geneviève

doi:10.1353/gsp.2010.0012

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“…38 An understanding of reconciliation is made complex by the question of the 'level' at which reconciliation ought to take place: local, national or international. 39 The question of the relevant level of reconciliation largely depends on 'who is looking at it', and is usually found in debates between top-down and bottom-up approaches. 40 For instance, scholars in social psychology focus on the experience of the individuals who are or were affected by the armed conflict and on the relationship between individual 'victims' and 'perpetrators'.…”

Section: The Process Of Reconciliationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Peacebuilding, Healing, Reconciliation: An Analysis of Unseen Connections for Peace

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2011

International Peacekeeping

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G E N E V I È V E P A R E N TThis article explores the notions of 'healing' and 'reconciliation' as they are used in the literature on peacebuilding. It argues that these notions are used vaguely and that they are deployed to discriminate between 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' approaches to peacebuilding. As such, they render invisible complex connections between the psycho-social processes associated with healing and the political processes associated with reconciliation. Numerous programmes and processes of peacebuilding are conceived upon the distinction between healing and reconciliation. The article examines the effects of this distinction and argues that where healing and reconciliation are disconnected, peacebuilding produces experiences of secondary victimization that undermine peace. The case of post-genocide Rwanda is used to support this argument.

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Section: The Process Of Reconciliationmentioning

confidence: 99%