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Research in Peace and
Reconciliation RIPAR |
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The series »Research in Peace and
Reconciliation« (RIPAR) provides a unique overview of the world-wide
research on peace and reconciliation. The volumes follow a
transdisciplinary perspective, linking Political Science, Psychology,
History, Sociology, Law, Religious Studies, Theology, Economics and
Cultural Anthropology with each other. The origins of the concept of
reconciliation in the Bible are treated as well as the experiences from
the commissions of Truth and Reconciliation around the globe, Muslim
concepts of peace as well as the Social Psychology of intergroup
reconciliation. Authors are internationally renowned, but also
innovative younger researchers from many countries. All publications
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Die Reihe »Research in Peace and
Reconciliation« (RIPAR) gibt einen bislang einzigartigen Überblick über
die weltweiten Forschungen zu Frieden und Versöhnung. Die Publikationen
folgen einer transdisziplinären Perspektive, die Politikwissenschaften,
Psychologie, Geschichte, Soziologie, Recht, Religionswissenschaften,
Theologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Kulturanthropologie miteinander
verknüpft. Die Ursprünge des Versöhnungsbegriffs in der Bibel
thematisiert die Reihe ebenso wie Erfahrungen aus den weltweiten
Wahrheits- und Versöhnungskommissionen, islamische Friedensvorstellungen
und die Sozialpsychologie der Versöhnung zwischen Gruppen. Die Autoren
sind international renommierte, aber auch innovative jüngere
Wissenschaftler aus zahlreichen Ländern. Alle Texte werden auf
Englisch vorgelegt. |
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Phillip Tolliday Asia-Pacific between Conflict and
Reconciliation
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, 293
Seiten, 1 figure and 5 tables, Hardcover, 978-3-525-56025-9
90,00 EUR
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This third volume in the RIPAR series seeks to translate the Western
concept of reconciliation into a universal and thus non-Western idiom.
It unmasks some of the long-held and unresolved injustices in
Australasia and the Asian-Pacific region. The volume focuses on
promising examples of reconciliation processes and practices. These
include comparative case study analyses e.g. from Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri
Lanka, Korea, Indonesia, China, Japan and from New Zealand and Australia
as well as the U.S. and Germany. The contributions demonstrate the
potential of translating reconciliation into a non-Western idiom.
Written by highly reputed experts from related research fields, the
articles demonstrate how the past still exercises a pervasive influence
over the present, and also point out the ways in which reconciliation
may serve as a transformative tool in war and post-war societies as they
make the transition to a renewed collective identity. A perennial
challenge is to ensure that a tragic past does not determine the future.
Asia, so often seen from a Eurocentric perspective as exotic, other and
different, is now manifestly an economic and political powerhouse –
shaped by the West, it is now playing its part in shaping the West.
Asia’s destiny, its aspirations for just dealings among its neighbors,
for the unmasking and resolution of long-held historical injustices from
the past, for its sometimes tentative groping toward practices of
reconciliation rather than conflict: all these efforts have consequences
not just for the Asian nations but for the entire international
community.
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Martin Leiner Societies in Transition
Sub-Saharan Africa between Conflict and Reconciliation Vandenhoeck &
Ruprecht, 2014, 242 Seiten, 1 map and 6 tables, Hardcover,
978-3-525-56018-1 100,00 EUR
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The second volume of the trans-disciplinary series “Research in
Peace and Reconciliation” looks at ways of dealing with the past in
Sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades and highlights the variety of
peaceful strategies and processes. It asks to what extent this variety
fosters the development of alternative methods for the transformation of
violent conflict. The contributions focus on different African
countries and regions as Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Namibia,
Zimbabwe, and South Africa. They take into account the influence of
particular cultural contexts on processes of reconciliation. In doing
so, they emphasize the importance of religions, rites, and tribal
customs as well as the complex legacy of colonialism. They also look at
the presentation of the topic in Western media. Many thanks go to the
Ernst-Abbe-Foundation (Jena) for its generous support of the
publication.
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Volume 1: Martin Leiner
Latin America between Conflict and Reconciliation
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, 296 Seiten, Hardcover,
978-3-525-56011-2
100,00 EUR
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In the last decades, many countries in
Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Truth commissions were an essential instrument of uncovering politically
motivated crimes and serious human rights violations. However, in many
cases truth came without justice, perpetrators were not held accountable,
and the reparation policy was rather restrictive. Susan Flämig and
Martin Leiner address the issue from a transdisciplinary perspective and
focus on the past shaped by fierce conflicts but also by attempts of
fostering reconciliation. They also look at reconciliation still to
come.
Susan Flämig, David Tombs, Matthieu de Nanteuil, Mariana Chacón /
Witold Mucha, Elizabeth Lira/Brian Loveman, Hugo Rojas, Katharina
Freudenberg, Kanan Kitani, Christo Thesnaar, Andreas Hasenclever / Jan
Sändig.
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Die Militärdiktaturen, die viele Staaten
Lateinamerikas vor Ende der 1980er Jahre weithin prägten und die
Bürgerkriege, die hunderttausende von Opfern unter der indigenen
Landbevölkerung hervorriefen, scheinen überwunden. Wie viel sich
wirklich und dauerhaft geändert hat, muss erst die Zukunft zeigen.
Martin Leiner und Susan Flämig zeichnen das mühevolle Ringen um die
Erschaffung einer Friedenskultur und um die Bestrafung der Täter – das
Ende von Amnestie und Impunidad – ebenso nach wie die neuen
Herausforderungen durch zivile Gewaltakte in den südamerikanischen
Gesellschaften. Dieser Band erscheint als erster von 6 Bänden der neuen
internationalen Reihe »Research in Peace and Reconciliation«. |
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Forthcoming volumes RIPAR:
2013: Vol. 2. Martin Leiner/Peggy Stöckner (ed.), Sub-saharan Africa
between Conflict and Reconciliation
2014: Vol. 3. Kanan Kitani/Martin Leiner (ed.), East Asia and Australia
between Conflict and Reconciliation
2015: Vol. 4. Bertram Schmitz/Martin Leiner (ed.), The Indian
Subcontinent between Conflict and Reconciliation
2016: Vol. 5. Mohammed Dajani/Martin Leiner/Arie Nadler (ed.), North
Africa and the Middle East between Conflict and Reconciliation
2017: Vol. 6. David Thombs/ Martin Leiner/David Gippner/Peggy Stoeckner
(ed.), Europe, Ancient Sovjet-Union and North America between Conflict
and Reconciliation
2018: Vol. 7. Matthias Gockel/Martin Leiner (ed.), Conflict and
Reconciliation – New models in a transdisciplinary research |
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