Chapter ten: reconciliation Flashcards
What is the relation between state-building and peacebuilding?
Statebuilding and peacebuilding are not synonymous potentially contradictory. Statebuilding involves the consolidation of government authority and peacebuilding compromise and consensus-building.
What should be the aim of reconciliation?
To move from antagonistic to agonistic relations, from fighting to adversarial relations contained in a political system.
What is reconciliation seen as?
Not as a means of eliminating differences but as providing a framework for the contending parties to work through and live with their differences.
What is reconciliation in what already exists?
Voluntary acceptance of what is as yet not an ideal outcome, a necessary element in peaceful politics.
What is reconciling financial or other outcomes?
the notion of comparison and correlation of stories to the point where they are at least not fatally incompatible or irreconcilable.
What is reconciling opposites or bridging diversity?
Possibility of mutual change in the interest of opening up otherwise inaccessible opportunities.
What is Reconciliation between former enemies?
The final form of reconciliation. Past enmity is set aside and emotional space is created for reforging new relationships.
What is the most acute challenge in reconciliation
Reconciliation after violent conflict.
What is needed to be done to reach transformative levels of reconciliation?
A capacity for innovation and creative renewal likely to be beyond the capacity of many societies in the immediate aftermath of violence.
What needs to happen to reach deeper processes of conflict resolution?
Psychological transformation accompanying the relational task of reconciliation.
What is the amnesia approach?
A forgive-and-forget approach as a way of moving on for societies emerging out of bloodshed.
What are the three interdependent dimensions of public justice according to mani?
- Legal justice or the rule of law
- rectificatory justice, to deal with past abuses in response to gross human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Third comes distributive justice to address the structural and systemic injustices such as political and economic discrimination and inequalities of distribution that are frequently underlying causes of conflict.
What is the negative, positive peace passage?
The passage from negative to positive peace runs through justice.
What is needed for reconciliation to be possible?
sufficient acceptance by accounts to allow truth commissions and trials to defuse issues of rectificatory justice, and sufficient bridging of differences through compensation, reparation or structural adjustments to deliver the adequate prospect of improved distributive justice in future.
What are criminal tribunals considered as in the book?
National or international criminal tribunals are better regarded as complementary however they are an essential ingredient in the struggle to assert internationally endorsed humane standards even in the crucible of intense conflict.
