Reconciliation In The Asia Pacific

Author : Yōichi Funabashi
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 1929223471

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Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific by Yōichi Funabashi Pdf

History has left many scars in the Asia-Pacific. Injuries inflicted generations ago are still fresh in the collective memories of the peoples of the region, hobbling efforts to repair relationships between old adversaries. But recently the spirit of reconciliation seems to have acquired new life. From Korea to Japan to China, longtime enemies are trading apologies and looking ahead. In this remarkably timely volume, Yoichi Funabashi, one of Japan's most influential journalists, and seven authors from throughout the Asia-Pacific shine the spotlight on the prospects for reconciliation in the region. Looking at instances of inter-ethnic as well as international strife, this book lays out the background to each case, analyzes the impact of unresolved and sometimes unacknowledged grievances, and weighs the prospects for overcoming the burden of history. Not all the cases inspire optimism, at least in the short term, for bitter memories have burrowed deep into society and are intertwined with issues of political power and ethnic identity. But in some parts of the region, palpable progress toward reconciliation is being made. In his conclusion, Funabashi identifies the key steps that governments and publics must take if they are to come to terms with the past.

Author : K. Shimizu,W. Bradley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137403605

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Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific by K. Shimizu,W. Bradley Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.

Author : Bert Jenkins,D. B. Subedi,Kathy Jenkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811068003

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Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Communities by Bert Jenkins,D. B. Subedi,Kathy Jenkins Pdf

This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, South Thailand, Bougainville and the Solomon Islands. It offers insights to further our understanding of the social and political processes of reconciliation in a region that has witnessed numerous armed conflicts, many of them perpetuating over generations. The book also draws lessons from the richness arising from diversity in terms of religious and cultural practices, social life, and forms of government and governance, and through the exploration of theories and practices of reconciliation in conflict and post-conflict contexts in the region. It provides useful reference material for researchers, academics, policy makers and students working in the areas of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, reconciliation, social cohesion, development, transitional justice and human rights in the Asia and Pacific region.

Author : Phillip Tolliday,Maria Palme,Dong-Choon Kim,Benoît Bourgine,Francois Dermange,Dennis Doyle,Matthias Gockel,Makoto Mizutani,Arie Nadler,David Tombs
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647560250

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Asia-Pacific between Conflict and Reconciliation by Phillip Tolliday,Maria Palme,Dong-Choon Kim,Benoît Bourgine,Francois Dermange,Dennis Doyle,Matthias Gockel,Makoto Mizutani,Arie Nadler,David Tombs Pdf

Asia, so often seen from a Eurocentric perspective as exotic, other and different, is now manifestly an economic and political powerhouse. Shaped by the West, it is now playing its part in shaping the West.The third volume in the RIPAR series on "Societies in Transition" turns its focus on reconciliation to Asia-Pacific. Case studies are drawn from New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Japan, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and China, including comparative case studies from Central Asia, East Asia and Germany and the U.S.Contributions by Jude Lal Fernando, Leo D. Lefebure, Martin Leiner, Liu Liangjian, Seiko Mimaki. Ann-Sophie Schöpfel, Sentot Setyasiswanto, Christoph Sperfeldt, Deborah Stevens, Bo-Hyuk Suh, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto, Farrah Tek, Phillip Tolliday, Annette Weinke and Maung Maung Yin.

Author : Kosuke Shimizu,William Bradley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137403594

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Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific by Kosuke Shimizu,William Bradley Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY license. Japan has recently promoted a number of initiatives that can be termed an opening to the world and the Asia-Pacific in particular. These have origins in Japan's globalization generally and multicultural policies more specifically. The chapters in this book are grouped in three parts—theories, language, and migration—and they explicate details of multiculturalism in the Asia-Pacific, largely focused on Japan, but including cases that extend beyond Japan as well. Alternative understandings based on analyzing conflicts and moving towards reconciliation underscore the urgency of viewing multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific from perspectives that are firmly based in the region. Themes such as immigration, identity, foreign language education, politics and language, English language policies, dual citizenship, foreign labor policies and movements, and higher education are all addressed in the individual chapters. This book will be of interest to scholars of multiculturalism in a wide variety of fields.

Author : Kosuke Shimizu,William S Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1013285816

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Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific by Kosuke Shimizu,William S Bradley Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY license. Japan has recently promoted a number of initiatives that can be termed an opening to the world and the Asia-Pacific in particular. These have origins in Japan's globalization generally and multicultural policies more specifically. The chapters in this book are grouped in three parts-theories, language, and migration-and they explicate details of multiculturalism in the Asia-Pacific, largely focused on Japan, but including cases that extend beyond Japan as well. Alternative understandings based on analyzing conflicts and moving towards reconciliation underscore the urgency of viewing multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific from perspectives that are firmly based in the region. Themes such as immigration, identity, foreign language education, politics and language, English language policies, dual citizenship, foreign labor policies and movements, and higher education are all addressed in the individual chapters. This book will be of interest to scholars of multiculturalism in a wide variety of fields. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Kimie Hara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1138794783

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The San Francisco System and Its Legacies by Kimie Hara Pdf

This book explores the key developments of the contentious political and security issues in the Asia-Pacific that share a common foundation in the post-war disposition of Japan, particularly the San Francisco Peace Treaty. These include both tangible and intangible issues, such as disputes over territories and "history" problems. Taking the San Francisco System as its conceptual grounding, the contributors examine how these issues developed and have remained contentious long after the San Francisco arrangements.

Author : Renee Jeffery,Hun Joon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107040373

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Transitional Justice in the Asia-Pacific by Renee Jeffery,Hun Joon Kim Pdf

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Soon-Won Park,Daqing Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135984779

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Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia by Gi-Wook Shin,Soon-Won Park,Daqing Yang Pdf

Despite witnessing phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, as well as impressive intra-regional exchanges and interactions in the economic and cultural spheres, the Northeast Asian region still experience wounds from past wrongs that were committed in times of colonialism, war and dictatorship. Overcoming these historical animosities has become one of the most pressing issues of the future for the region. Of all the countries in the Northeast Asia region coping with this historical injustice, the Republic of Korea stands out as both a victim and an aggressor. Being a nation that has addressed issues of both internal and external injustice, Korea becomes the focus of this volume. Using examples of injustice from the colonial and the Second World War period, the Korean civil War, the current stage of Korean transitional justice and broader regional and global perspectives, the book concludes with a section on forward-looking approaches for arriving at reconciliation in the Asian region. This is a significant book that will be of huge interest to anyone studying East Asian politics, history or society.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Soon-Won Park,Daqing Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135984786

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Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia by Gi-Wook Shin,Soon-Won Park,Daqing Yang Pdf

Korea is a nation that has addressed issues of both internal and external injustices from past wrongs that were committed in times of colonialism, war and dictatorship. Using examples of this injustice, this book focuses on Korea and looks towards reconciliation in the region.

Author : Yasuko Claremont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351679473

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Civil Society and Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation by Yasuko Claremont Pdf

This book brings together discussions of leading aspects and repercussions of the Asia-Pacific War, which still have huge relevance today. From the development of war guilt to the vivid effect of art on bringing alive the realities of the war, it analyses a diversity of post-war issues in the Pacific Basin. Organised into five parts, the book begins by scrutinizing the conflicting attitudes towards Japanese post-war society and identifies the various legacies of the war. It also provides an examination of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagaski, before studying contemporary civil society and analysing the way memories of the war have changed with time. Each of the chapters discusses the Japanese government’s inability to achieve reconciliation with its neighbours, despite the passage of over 70 years, and the denial of the atrocities committed by the Imperial Army. Arguing that this policy of continuous denial has triggered the rise of civil movements in Japan, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese History and Japanese Studies in general.

Author : Kevin P Clements
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319548975

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Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia by Kevin P Clements Pdf

This edited collection explores how East Asia’s painful history continues to haunt the relationships between its countries and peoples. Through a largely social-psychological and constructivist lens, the authors examine the ways in which historical memory and unmet identity needs generates mutual suspicion, xenophobic nationalism and tensions in the bilateral and trilateral relationships within the region. This text not only addresses some of the domestic drivers of Japanese, Chinese and South Korean foreign policy - and the implications of increasingly autocratic rule in all three countries – but also analyses the way in which new security mechanisms and processes advancing trust, confidence and reconciliation can replace those generating mistrust, antagonism and insecurity.

Author : Joanne Wallis,Lia Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000061352

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Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice by Joanne Wallis,Lia Kent Pdf

Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms of civil society that are enabled or disabled by transitional justice processes and the forms of transitional justice activity that are enabled and disabled by civil society actors. Although civil society organisations play an integral role in the pursuit of transitional justice in conflict-affected societies, the literature lacks a comprehensive conceptualisation of the diversity and complexity of these roles. This reflects the degree to which dominant approaches to transitional justice focus on liberal-legal justice strategies and international human rights norms. In this context, civil society organisations are perceived as intermediaries who are thought to advocate for and support formal, liberal transitional justice processes. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that the reality is more complicated; civil society can – and does – play important roles in enabling formal transitional justice processes, but it can also disrupt them. Informed by detailed fieldwork across Asia and the Pacific Islands, the contributions demonstrate that neither transitional justice or civil society should be treated as taken-for-granted concepts. Demonstrating that neither transitional justice or civil society should be treated as taken-for-granted concepts, Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice will be of great interest to scholars of Security Studies, Asian Studies, Peacebuilding, Asia Pacific, Human Rights, Reconciliation and the Politics of Memory. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Global Change, Peace & Security.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822037816600

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Thailand by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment Pdf

Author : Tatsushi Arai,Shihoko Goto,Zheng Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : China
ISBN : 1938027450

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Contested Memories and Reconciliation Challenges by Tatsushi Arai,Shihoko Goto,Zheng Wang Pdf

Seventy years after the end of World War II, the ghost of conflict still haunts international relationships in East Asia. The lack of real postwar reconciliation and effective peacebuilding within the general public between China and Japan is the true cause of the current animosity. As the oftentimes all too emotional discussions over historical guilt continues to rage on in East Asia, this publication is a call for thoughtful analysis of why relations are reaching a boiling point today, and how tensions could be cooled. This publication is, in short, an articulation of deep passion and high hopes from all participants for the four countries to reach a lasting resolution to the ongoing conflict over history in one of the world's most populous and dynamic regions.