Lecture 11a: Reconciliation Flashcards
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Reconciliation
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Three Latin Words:
Re (again)
Con (together)
Ciliere (call)
- People are apart, need to be brought back together again
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William Long and Peter Brecke
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- Examined reconciliation by comparing dynamics between states after violent conflict and in the context of civil wars
- Foregiveness and signalling
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Foregiveness and Signalling
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Foregiveness
- Characterized by truth-telling
- Redefinition of identity of former belligerents
- Call for new relationship
Signalling
- When a reconciliation event was part of a costly, novel, voluntary, and irrevocable concession in a negotiation bargain, it contributed meaningfully to a reduction in future conflict.
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Janine Chanteur
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- Examined the normal state of relationships among human beings
- Overwhelming evidence that for philosophers there is a state of war or extreme conflict that is considered the narrative relationship between self and other
- Peace = temporary break of this state
- Profound dehumanization of the other
- Dehumanization exemplifies ‘ontological rift’
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Reconciliation Objectives
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- Sense of Justice
- Personal Healing and Empowerment
- New Relationships
- Structural Change
- Transcendence
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Sense of Justice
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- Without a sense of justice, it is harder for group healing to occur
- A need to probe what justice may mean in any given situation
- Retributive justice - punish perpetrators - large scale atrocities
e. g. Nuremberg Trials
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Personal Healing and Empowerment
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- Physical harms, psychological harms, damage, emotional challenges
- Herman, Levinas, Frankl, Sawatsky
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New Relationships
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- New relationships are needed because they are good in of themselves, but can also help future conflict
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Structural Change
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- May be political, economic, or physical
e. g. post WWII structural change, formation of European Union
e. g. civil rights to Black Americans
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Transcendence
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- Develop a perspective that includes both victim and perpatrator
- Good deal of maturity/inner development required
e. g. Nelson Mandela and South Africa Rugby team
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Jarem Sawatsky
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- Synthesized a shared concept of healing
- Justice defined as:
A collective paradigm or imagination drawing on current wisdom/tradition
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Victor Frankl
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- Healing came through discovery of meaning within the concentration camp
- Nazis couldn’t control his thoughts, found sense of agency through thoughts
- Logo therapy
- Development of capacity to find meaning in ones situaiton
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Emmanuel Levinas
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- Worst form of violence is that which deprive people of a capacity for action
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Judith Herman
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Trauma and Recovery (book)
- Describes how trauma can disempower people
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Iterative Process
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- Progress, regress, reassessment
- Large number of subprocesses involved
