Apology And Reconciliation In International Relations

Author : Christopher Daase,Stefan Engert,Michel-André Horelt,Judith Renner,Renate Strassner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317589488

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Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations by Christopher Daase,Stefan Engert,Michel-André Horelt,Judith Renner,Renate Strassner Pdf

This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying conflictive relationships? In recent years, we have witnessed an unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies, thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still puzzling phenomenon, the precise role and meaning of which in international politics remains to be explored. This book sets out to do exactly this. Focusing in particular on state apologies, it assembles twelve detailed empirical case studies which deal with the two questions raised above. In the first part, the case studies reconstruct the processes in which state representatives react to calls for public atonement, and in the second part the case studies explore the reactions to the apology and evaluate signs for its success or failure. All case studies are based on a theoretical framework which is outlined in the introduction to the book and helps develop tentative assumptions about the emergence and the effects of state apologies, drawing on different strands of literature, such as political science, philosophy, sociology or psychology. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of conflict reconciliation, international relations and transitional justice.

Author : Michel-André Horelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Apologizing
ISBN : 3845261617

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Dramas of Reconciliation by Michel-André Horelt Pdf

Author : Jennifer Lind
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801462274

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Sorry States by Jennifer Lind Pdf

Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. The post-World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologies have powerful healing effects when they are offered, and poisonous effects when withheld. West Germany made extensive efforts to atone for wartime crimes-formal apologies, monuments to victims of the Nazis, and candid history textbooks; Bonn successfully reconciled with its wartime enemies. By contrast, Tokyo has made few and unsatisfying apologies and approves school textbooks that whitewash wartime atrocities. Japanese leaders worship at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors war criminals among Japan's war dead. Relations between Japan and its neighbors remain tense. Examining the cases of South Korean relations with Japan and of French relations with Germany, Jennifer Lind demonstrates that denials of past atrocities fuel distrust and inhibit international reconciliation. In Sorry States, she argues that a country's acknowledgment of past misdeeds is essential for promoting trust and reconciliation after war. However, Lind challenges the conventional wisdom by showing that many countries have been able to reconcile without much in the way of apologies or reparations. Contrition can be highly controversial and is likely to cause a domestic backlash that alarms—rather than assuages—outside observers. Apologies and other such polarizing gestures are thus unlikely to soothe relations after conflict, Lind finds, and remembrance that is less accusatory-conducted bilaterally or in multilateral settings-holds the most promise for international reconciliation.

Author : Elazar Barkan,Alexander Karn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804752257

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Taking Wrongs Seriously by Elazar Barkan,Alexander Karn Pdf

This multi-disciplinary collection examines the recent wave of political apologies for acts of past injustice.

Author : William Bole,Drew Christiansen,Robert T. Hennemeyer
Publisher : USCCB Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 157455574X

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Forgiveness in International Politics by William Bole,Drew Christiansen,Robert T. Hennemeyer Pdf

In this provocative book, the authors argue that the core religious value of forgiveness can play a real, strategic role in the arena of international conflict and diplomacy.

Author : Girma Negash
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739152058

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Apologia Politica by Girma Negash Pdf

Apologia Politica defines and explores the nature of public apology, or what Nicholas Tavuchis calls 'an apology from the many to the many.' Focusing on collectivities and their agencies in the apology process, author Girma Negash examines public apology as ethical and public discourse, recommends criteria for the apology process, analyzes historical and contemporary cases, and formulates a guide to ethical conduct in public apologies.

Author : K. Togo
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349453439

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Japan and Reconciliation in Post-war Asia by K. Togo Pdf

Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications for memory, international relations, and reconciliation in Asia.

Author : Michael J. Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Apologizing
ISBN : 1781707650

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States of Apology by Michael J. Cunningham Pdf

'States of Apology' evaluates the relationship between the personal apology and the apology in politics, the political and cultural factors behind its emergence and the philosophical problems generated by the state apologising and in particular the question of responsibility across generations. The book also considers the dynamics of domestic apologies and the relationship of the apology to the field of international relations.

Author : Christopher Daase,Stefan Engert,Michel-André Horelt,Judith Renner,Renate Strassner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317589471

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Apology and Reconciliation in International Relations by Christopher Daase,Stefan Engert,Michel-André Horelt,Judith Renner,Renate Strassner Pdf

This book looks into the role and effects of public apologies in international relations. It focuses on two major questions - why and when do states issue apologies for historic crimes and how and under what conditions are these apologies successful in remedying conflictive relationships? In recent years, we have witnessed an unseen popularity of apologies, with numerous politicians, managers and clergymen being eager to apologise and atone for the wrong-doings of their countries or institutions. Public apologies, thus, are a new and highly interesting, while nevertheless still puzzling phenomenon, the precise role and meaning of which in international politics remains to be explored. This book sets out to do exactly this. Focusing in particular on state apologies, it assembles twelve detailed empirical case studies which deal with the two questions raised above. In the first part, the case studies reconstruct the processes in which state representatives react to calls for public atonement, and in the second part the case studies explore the reactions to the apology and evaluate signs for its success or failure. All case studies are based on a theoretical framework which is outlined in the introduction to the book and helps develop tentative assumptions about the emergence and the effects of state apologies, drawing on different strands of literature, such as political science, philosophy, sociology or psychology. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of conflict reconciliation, international relations and transitional justice.

Author : David Bloomfield,Terri Barnes,Lucien Huyse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111804477

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Reconciliation After Violent Conflict by David Bloomfield,Terri Barnes,Lucien Huyse Pdf

How does a newly democratized nation constructively address the past to move from a divided history to a shared future? How do people rebuild coexistence after violence? The International IDEA Handbook on Reconciliation after Violent Conflict presents a range of tools that can be, and have been, employed in the design and implementation of reconciliation processes. Most of them draw on the experience of people grappling with the problems of past violence and injustice. There is no "right answer" to the challenge of reconciliation, and so the Handbook prescribes no single approach. Instead, it presents the options and methods, with their strengths and weaknesses evaluated, so that practitioners and policy-makers can adopt or adapt them, as best suits each specific context. Also available in a French language version.

Author : Michel-André Horelt
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Apologizing
ISBN : 3848720981

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Dramas of Reconciliation by Michel-André Horelt Pdf

Political apologies have been described as modern political rites. However, the scholarship has failed so far to take the ritualistic elements in apologies seriously. This book addresses this lacuna. Contrary to linguistic approaches that locate the transformative power of apologies in correct wording, this book grounds the force of apologies in ritual performances. Drawing on ritual theory the book reveals how apology performances bear characteristics of rites of transitions. This book lays down the ritual features that enwrap apologies, demonstrates how apologizing agents activate sacred symbols in apology ceremonies, and how rites as a distinct mode of social communication may create extra-ordinary moments of transition. Based on a discourse analytical methodology, the study analyses several apology performances for historic crimes and discloses the potentials and the limits of rituals of apologies.

Author : Ani Kalayjian,Raymond F. Paloutzian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1441962190

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Forgiveness and Reconciliation by Ani Kalayjian,Raymond F. Paloutzian Pdf

We all long for peace within ourselves, families, communities, countries, and throughout the world. We wonder what we can do about the multitude of con?icts currently wreaking havoc across the globe and the continuous reports of violence in communities as well as within families. Most of the time, we contemplate solutions beyond our reach, and overlook a powerful tool that is at our disposal: forgiveness. As a genocide survivor, I know something about it. As the genocide unfolded in Rwanda in 1994, I was devastated by what I believed to be the inevitable deaths of my loved ones. The news that my parents and my seven siblings had indeed been killed was simply unbearable. Anger and bitterness became my daily companions. Likewise, I continued to wonder how the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda could possibly reconcile after one of the most horrendous genocides of the 20th century. It was not until I came to understand the notion of forgiveness that I was able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Common wisdom suggests that forgiveness comes after a perpetrator makes a genuine apology. This wisdom informs us that in the aftermath of a wrongdoing, the offender must acknowledge the wrong he or she has done, express remorse, express an apology, commit to never repeating said harm, and make reparations to theextentpossible.Onlythencanthevictimforgiveandagreetoneverseekrevenge.

Author : Birgit Schwelling
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839419311

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Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory by Birgit Schwelling Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Gibney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812240332

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The Age of Apology by Mark Gibney Pdf

In The Age of Apology twenty-two law, politics, and human rights scholars explore the legal, political, social, historical, moral, religious, and anthropological aspects of Western apologies.

Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459410695

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Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Pdf

This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.