Reconciliation: I Know It When I see It<sup>1</sup>

McGregor, Lorna

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“…There is no consensus on how postwar reconciliation can be enabled and facilitated. In international relations and peace and conflict studies, political institutions and narratives that can foster reconciliation tend to be prioritized (McGregor, 2006). Reconciliation is often linked to transitional justice mechanisms, the reform of political, military, and judiciary structures and institutions, and the promotion of discourses and narratives built on truth and forgiveness (Lederach, 1997).…”

Section: Embodied Reconciliationmentioning

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The embodiment of postwar reconciliation? The issue of the missing after the Georgian–Abkhazian armed conflict.

Romashov,

Féron

2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Almost all countries that are experiencing or have experienced war or armed conflict are affected by the issue of the missing. The literature on those who go missing after violent conflicts has focused mainly on technical issues related to the retrieval and identification of bodies, families’ mobilization, transitional justice, and psychological consequences for the relatives of the missing. However, despite the staggering number of people who go missing in wars and the unrelenting mobilization by their relatives in the postwar period, little attention has been paid so far to how the issue of the disappeared can influence reconciliation processes. In addition, the corporeal dimensions of postwar reconciliation have remained largely unexplored, and the extent to which the issue of missing bodies can hamper, derail, or enhance reconciliation is unknown. Therefore, this article explores how and why the issue of the missing as an embodied impact of war has influenced possibilities for reconciliation at the personal, communal, and societal levels after the war. It engages with the case of the missing in the Georgian–Abkhazian war (1992–1993) as an illustrative example of such interconnections. The article’s conclusions have relevance for other cases of ethnicized secessionist conflicts, notably in the ex-Soviet space, where the issues of the missing and postwar reconciliation remain understudied. The article is based on original research material collected in Georgia, including interviews with current or former representatives of the key stakeholders: international organizations, government, civil society, and the families of the missing.

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Section: Embodied Reconciliationmentioning

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The embodiment of postwar reconciliation? The issue of the missing after the Georgian–Abkhazian armed conflict.

Romashov,

Féron

2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…I have previously argued that the distinction between complex and basic narratives is more significant than either the distinction between fictional and nonfictional narratives or the distinction between artistic and unartistic narratives. 14 Aesthetic education itself is ultimately a question of values or, more precisely for my purposes, the relationships among the different values attributed to complex narratives. To attribute value to an entity is to judge that the entity counts in some way, that it is worth something.…”

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Introduction: Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art

McGregor

2023

Journal of Aesthetic Education

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The purpose of this introduction is to set out the scope and content of this special issue of the Journal of Aesthetic Education, which takes Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art as its subject. I begin by delineating the “aesthetic” itself and then identifying the denotation of “aesthetic education” with which the issue's authors are concerned. This is followed by a characterization of “narrative art” that belies my preference for representation rather than art and draws attention to the multiple modes of representation that constitute complex narratives. I next turn to the title of the special issue, an abridged version of Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art and its Relevance for the Humanities, which is an installation research project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation to investigate the relationship between aesthetic and artistic values on the one hand and ethical, political, and social values on the other. The project is multidisciplinary among philosophy, criminology, film studies, and cognitive science, and three of the authors are members of the project team. I conclude by introducing each of the six articles, which employ two approaches, one from philosophical aesthetics and the other from critical criminology.

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“…In the past few decades, national reconciliation has become an integral part of post-conflict recovery processes (Bloomfield et al 2003;McGregor 2006;Broneus 2007;Sarkin 2008). Peace agreements, policies, laws and institutions have been formed in order to facilitate reconciliation within a nation-state (Abu-Nimer 2001;Murphy 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although much has been written about institutions that facilitate reconciliation in South Africa (Boraine et al 1997;James and Van der Vijver 2007), Rwanda (Clark 2010;Clark 2011;Reyntjens 2013), and to a lesser degree, Burundi (Vandeginste 2012), far less comparative work has been done between these cases. This kind of comparative work has the potential to contribute to the conceptualisation of reconciliation, which is described time and again as a vague, amorphous and difficult term to work with (Bloomfield et al 2003;McGregor 2006;Bronéus 2007). Since it has started to be commonly used in political discourse (for example, in peace agreements, constitutions and policies), its meaning has become particularly contentious.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…What remains difficult to ascertain is in what ways the institutions governments have established to facilitate reconciliation actually bring about reconciliation, and as various scholars have pointed out, measuring the progress of reconciliation remains a challenge (McGregor 2006;Bronéus 2007). In documents such as peace agreements or frameworks that describe the institutions that will facilitate national reconciliation, there is rarely attention given to how they will do this, or in what ways specific functions will contribute to particular aspects of a reconciliation process.…”

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Reconciliation From the Top Down? Government Institutions in South Africa, Rwanda and Burundi

Wielenga¹

2020

SRSA

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National reconciliation has increasingly become an integral part of post-conflict recovery processes in Africa. What national reconciliation means, how it differs from interpersonal reconciliation and to what extent governments can facilitate reconciliation at all remains under debate. This article examines government institutions intended to facilitate national reconciliation processes in South Africa, Rwanda and Burundi. Rather than normatively prescribing what governments should be doing, this article seeks to examine what governments are doing as a starting point to understanding what national reconciliation is.

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Reconciliation: I Know It When I see It¹

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The embodiment of postwar reconciliation? The issue of the missing after the Georgian–Abkhazian armed conflict.

The embodiment of postwar reconciliation? The issue of the missing after the Georgian–Abkhazian armed conflict.

Introduction: Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art

Reconciliation From the Top Down? Government Institutions in South Africa, Rwanda and Burundi

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The embodiment of postwar reconciliation? The issue of the missing after the Georgian–Abkhazian armed conflict.

The embodiment of postwar reconciliation? The issue of the missing after the Georgian–Abkhazian armed conflict.

Introduction: Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art

Reconciliation From the Top Down? Government Institutions in South Africa, Rwanda and Burundi

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