Transdisciplinary Approaches on Reconciliation Research: Studies in Honor of Martin Leiner (Research in Peace and Reconciliation, 9)

Francesco Ferrari, Davide Tacchini, Binyamin Gurstein, Laura Villanueva, Atin Basuchoudhary, Zeina Barakat, Ralf Haeussler, Fanie Du Toit, Luis Pena, Angelina Mendes, Benoit Bourgine, Andreas Freytag, Martin O'Malley, Maximilian Schell, Vladimir Handl, Josefina Echavarria, Karina Korostelina, Toyomi Asano, Kelly Christine Benedicto, Christine Schliesser, Christo H Thesnaar

ISBN 10: 3525500297 / ISBN 13: 9783525500293

Published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2024-03-11, 2024

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Synopsis:

Reconciliation studies are concerned with the processes of rebuilding and improving damaged relationships after major wrongdoings. They focus on factors such as law, economics, and international relations, as well as on elements such as emotions and ethics, culture and religion, media and education. Reconciliation research therefore requires a transdisciplinary approach, to analyse both the procedures leading to the recognition of truth as well as those in which justice is administered; both the impact of public apologies and cooperation agreements; both the implementation of memory policies and civil society initiatives; both the outcomes of trauma therapy and intergenerational encounter groups. While on the surface the relationships in question are those between states, groups, organisations, and individuals, at a deeper level reconciliation always addresses and involves many axes of damaged relationships: those with others (intergroup); those with one’s own group (intragroup); those with oneself; those with the environment; and those with transcendence. Reconciliation studies deal, therefore, with a much broader spectrum of relationships than that taken into consideration by neighbouring disciplines such as conflict resolution and peace studies. In this volume, Francesco Ferrari and Davide Tacchini brought together examples of Leiner’s approach to reconciliation studies as a cooperative project of different disciplines. The articles are divided into two sections: 1. A series of case studies about Japan-South Korea relations, German-Czech reconciliation, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict using the methods of Martin Leiner, Sayyid Qutb view of American society, and South Africans revisiting TRC. 2. A series of theoretical clarifications on reconciliation and moderation from a Palestinian point of view, evolutionary game theory looking at reconciliation processes by a team of economists, grace and reconciliation from a Catholic theological point of view, philosophical reflections on the concept of reconciliation after Auschwitz, cognitive and affective aspects in reconciliation from a Catholic theological point of view, ecology and spatiality of reconciliation seen by a social geographer, and political dimensions of reconciliation.

About the Authors: Francesco Ferrari is a post-doc researcher and lecturer at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and Goethe University Frankfurt.

Ph.D. Davide Tacchini ist Gastwissenschaftler am Lehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie und Ethik an der Universität Jena.

Binyamin Gurstein promoviert am Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Laura Villanueva ist Non-Resident Scholar am Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Martin Leiner ist Professor für Systematische Theologie mit Schwerpunkt Ethik an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

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Title: Transdisciplinary Approaches on ...
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2024-03-11
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
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