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Discourse, normative change and the quest for reconciliation in global politics - Softcover

Renner, Judith

 
9781784993900: Discourse, normative change and the quest for reconciliation in global politics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784993905 ISBN 13: 9781784993900
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding. After retracing the emergence of the reconciliation discourse from South Africa to the global level, the book demonstrates how implementing reconciliation in post-conflict societies is a highly political practice which entails potentially undesirable consequences for the post-conflict societies to which it is deployed. Specifically, the book shows how the reconciliation discourse brings about the marginalisation and neutralisation of political claims and identities of local post-conflict populations by producing these societies as being composed of the 'victims' and 'perpetrators' of past human rights violations which are first and foremost in need of reconciliation and healing. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of transitional justice and international relations.

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About the Author

Judith Renner is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Technical University Munich

From the Back Cover

This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding. After retracing the emergence of the reconciliation discourse from South Africa to the global level, the book demonstrates how implementing reconciliation in post-conflict societies is a highly political practice which entails potentially undesirable consequences for the post-conflict societies to which it is deployed. Specifically, the book shows how the reconciliation discourse brings about the marginalisation and neutralisation of political claims and identities of local post-conflict populations by producing these societies as being composed of the 'victims' and 'perpetrators' of past human rights violations which are first and foremost in need of reconciliation and healing.

This book will be of interest to students and teachers of transitional justice and international relations.

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This book offers a new and critical perspective on the global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as an authoritative practice of post-conflict peacebuilding. After retracing the emergence of the reconciliation discourse from South Africa to the global level, the book demonstrates how implementing reconciliation in post-conflict societies is a highly political practice which entails potentially undesirable consequences for the post-conflict societies to which it is deployed. Specifically, the book shows how the reconciliation discourse brings about the marginalisation and neutralisation of political claims and identities of local post-conflict populations by producing these societies as being composed of the victims and perpetrators of past human rights violations which are first and foremost in need of reconciliation and healing.This book will be of interest to students and teachers of transitional justice and international relations.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1784993905
ISBN 13 
9781784993900
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208