Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century / Birgit Schwelling (ed).

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Schwelling, Birgit, 1967- [editor.]

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9783839419311
383941931X

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CB427 .R43 2012

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Contents:

Transnational civil society's contribution to reconciliation: an introduction / Birgit Schwelling -- "A question of humanity in its entirety": Armin T. Wegner as intermediary of reconciliation between Germans and Armenians in interwar German civil society / Charlton Payne -- Mea culpas, negotiations, apologias: revisiting the "apology" of Turkish intellectuals / Ayda Erbal -- Soldiers' reconciliation: René Cassin, the International Labour Office, and the search for human rights / Jay Winter -- "A blessed act of oblivion" : human rights, European unity and postwar reconciliation / Marco Duranti -- Franco-German rapprochement and reconciliation in the ecclesial domain: the meeting of bishops in Bühl (1949) and the Congress of Speyer (1950) / Ulrike Schröber -- A right to irreconcilability? Oradour-sur-Glane, German-French relations and the limits of reconciliation after World War II / Andea Erkenbrecher -- From atonement to peace? Aktion Sühnezeichen, German-Israeli relations and the role of youth in reconciliation discourse and practice / Christiane Wienand -- Apologising for colonial violence: the documentary film Regresso a Wiriyamu, transitional justice, and Portuguese-Mozambican decolonisation / Robert Stock -- Facing postcolonial entanglement and the challenge of responsibility: actor constellations between Namibia and Germany / Reinhart Kössler -- Political reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / Melinda Sutton -- From truth to reconciliation: the global diffusion of truth commissions / Anne K. Krüger -- About the authors.

Summary: How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.

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How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.

Birgit Schwelling (Dr. habil.) is the Academic Director of the Research Group on "History and Memory" at the University of Konstanz, Germany.