Truth Recovery In Northern Ireland

Author : Kirk Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080881298

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Truth Recovery in Northern Ireland by Kirk Simpson Pdf

Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history -- truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past -- yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims’ rights is particularly striking. This book analyzes truth recovery as a fundamental aspect of the transition from political violence to peace, democracy and stability in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Kirk Simpson argues that it is essential for any process of truth recovery in Northern Ireland to provide the victims of political violence with the opportunity to express and articulate their narratives of suffering within the context of public dialogic processes. He outlines a unique and original model: that victims of political violence should be enabled to engage in meaningful truth recovery through a Habermasian process of public democratic deliberation and communication involving direct dialogue with the perpetrators of such violence. This process of ‘communicative justice’ is framed within Habermas’ theory of communicative action and can help to ensure that legitimate truth recovery publicly acknowledges the trauma of victims and subjects perpetrator narratives of political violence to critical scrutiny and rational deconstruction. Crucially, the book aims to contribute to the empowerment of victims in Northern Ireland by stimulating constructive discussion and awareness of hitherto silenced narratives of the conflict. This difficult and unsettling interrogation and interpretation of the conflict from a comparatively ‘unknown perspective’ is central to the prospects for critically examining and mastering the past in Northern Ireland.

Author : Healing Through Remembering Project,Kieran McEvoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Peace-building
ISBN : 1905882076

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Making Peace with the Past by Healing Through Remembering Project,Kieran McEvoy Pdf

Author : Cheryl Lawther
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317755500

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Truth, Denial and Transition by Cheryl Lawther Pdf

Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the Contested Past makes a unique and timely contribution to the transitional justice field. In contrast to the focus on truth and those societies where truth recovery has been central to dealing with the aftermath of human rights violations, comparatively little scholarly attention has been paid to those jurisdictions whose transition from violent conflict has been marked by the absence or rejection of a formal truth process. This book draws upon the case study of Northern Ireland, where, despite a lengthy debate, the question of establishing a formal truth recovery process remains hotly contested. The strongest and most vocal opposition has been from unionist political elites, loyalist ex-combatants and members of the security forces. Based on empirical research, their opposition is unpicked and interrogated at length throughout this book. Critically exploring notions of national imagination and blamelessness, the politics of victimhood and the tension between traditions of sacrifice and the fear of betrayal, this book is the first substantive effort to concentrate on the opponents of truth recovery rather than its advocates. This book will interest those studying truth processes and transitional justice in the fields of Law, Politics, and Criminology.

Author : Marie Breen Smyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134079490

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Truth Recovery and Justice After Conflict by Marie Breen Smyth Pdf

Focuses on the conditions which predispose or prevent embarkation on a truth recovery process and the rationale for that process, arguing that there is no magic moment ofreadiness for truth recovery, but that the conditions are constructed rather than spontaneously occurring.

Author : Marie Breen Smyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134079483

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Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict by Marie Breen Smyth Pdf

This book considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are increasingly used to unearth the acts committed by the various protagonists and to acknowledge the suffering of their victims. This book uniquely focuses on the conditions which predispose or p

Author : Kieran McEvoy
Publisher : Willan Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1843922363

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The Trouble with Truth by Kieran McEvoy Pdf

This book explores the relationship the politics of truth recovery and its assumed links to reconciliation in the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, looking at issues of transitional justice and the ownership and forms of truth recovery.

Author : Gerard Delanty,Krishan Kumar
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412901014

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The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism by Gerard Delanty,Krishan Kumar Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism gives readers a critical survey of the latest theories and debates. Its three sections guide the reader through the theoretical approaches to this field of study, its major themes - from modernity to memory, migration and genocide - and the diversity of nationalisms found around the globe.

Author : Lauren Dempster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351239363

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Transitional Justice and the ‘Disappeared’ of Northern Ireland by Lauren Dempster Pdf

This book employs a transitional justice lens to address the ‘disappearances’ that occurred during the Northern Ireland conflict – or ‘Troubles’ – and the post-conflict response to these ‘disappearances.’ Despite an extensive literature around ‘dealing with the past’ in Northern Ireland, as well as a substantial body of scholarship on ‘disappearances’ in other national contexts, there has been little scholarly scrutiny of ‘disappearances’ in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Although the Good Friday Agreement brought relative peace to Northern Ireland, no provision was made for the establishment of some form of overarching truth and reconciliation commission aimed at comprehensively addressing the legacy of violence. Nevertheless, a mechanism to recover the remains of the ‘disappeared’ – the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) – was established, and has in fact proven to be quite effective. As a result, the reactions of key constituencies to the ‘disappearances’ can be used as a prism through which to comprehensively explore issues of relevance to transitional justice scholars and practitioners. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, and based on extensive empirical research, this book provides a multifaceted exploration of the responses of these constituencies to the practice of ‘disappearing.’ It engages with transitional justice themes including silence, memory, truth, acknowledgement, and apology. Key issues examined include the mobilisation efforts of families of the ‘disappeared,’ efforts by a (former) non-state armed group to address its legacy of violence, the utility of a limited immunity mechanism to incentivise information provision, and the interplay between silence and memory in the shaping of a collective, societal understanding of the ‘disappeared.’

Author : Cheryl Lawther
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317755517

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Truth, Denial and Transition by Cheryl Lawther Pdf

Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the Contested Past makes a unique and timely contribution to the transitional justice field. In contrast to the focus on truth and those societies where truth recovery has been central to dealing with the aftermath of human rights violations, comparatively little scholarly attention has been paid to those jurisdictions whose transition from violent conflict has been marked by the absence or rejection of a formal truth process. This book draws upon the case study of Northern Ireland, where, despite a lengthy debate, the question of establishing a formal truth recovery process remains hotly contested. The strongest and most vocal opposition has been from unionist political elites, loyalist ex-combatants and members of the security forces. Based on empirical research, their opposition is unpicked and interrogated at length throughout this book. Critically exploring notions of national imagination and blamelessness, the politics of victimhood and the tension between traditions of sacrifice and the fear of betrayal, this book is the first substantive effort to concentrate on the opponents of truth recovery rather than its advocates. This book will interest those studying truth processes and transitional justice in the fields of Law, Politics, and Criminology.

Author : Kirk Simpson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230244894

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Unionist Voices and the Politics of Remembering the Past in Northern Ireland by Kirk Simpson Pdf

Simpson offers a reflective and theoretical explanation of the ways in which unionists conceive of the past in the present post-conflict environment. He considers the ways in which scholarly literature has often painted an outdated and inaccurate portrait of a highly complex people.

Author : Orla Lynch,Javier Argomaniz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135005276

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Victims of Terrorism by Orla Lynch,Javier Argomaniz Pdf

This book examines the politicisation of victims of terrorism and the reality of the victimisation experience within the broader field of terrorism and the resulting conflict. Victims of terrorism are a unique group of individuals whose experience is overlooked in the current literature on terrorism. Since 9/11, terrorism has risen to global prominence and has become a key topic of interest with regards to media attention and national security. As a result, many European countries (as well as the USA) have had to take active steps to protect and provide for the victims of terrorism, particularly given the nature of victimisation post-3/11 (Madrid) and 7/7 (London). Recently, we have also seen an increase in the political currency of the terrorist victim; for example, the lobbying activities and political involvement of the victims of ETA terrorism and the exceptionally powerful lobby in the USA that sees the involvement of victims of terrorism and their families in policy-making and law-enforcement transformations. This book is based on extensive field work in Northern Ireland, London and Spain and presents the results, which focus on the needs and experiences of victims of terrorism and political violence, and critically analyses these findings comparatively and in their own right. The aim is to assess the provision of support initiatives in Northern Ireland, mainland UK and Spain and understand if victims' needs are being met by these initiatives but most importantly to construct a picture of the local and international interpretation of the experience of victimisation by terrorism. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, victimology, criminology, security studies and IR.

Author : Brandon Hamber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073149176

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Past Imperfect by Brandon Hamber Pdf

Author : Claudio Corradetti,Nir Eisikovits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317010876

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Theorizing Transitional Justice by Claudio Corradetti,Nir Eisikovits Pdf

This book addresses the theoretical underpinnings of the field of transitional justice, something that has hitherto been lacking both in study and practice. With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial intersections evaluating aspects connected to the genealogy, the nature, the scope and the most appropriate methodology for the study of transitional justice. The chapters also take up normative and political considerations pertaining to specific transitional instruments such as war crime tribunals, truth commissions, administrative purges, reparations, and historical commissions. Bringing together some of the most original writings from established experts as well as from promising young scholars in the field, the collection will be an essential resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in Law, Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology.

Author : Eva Urban
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English drama
ISBN : 303430143X

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Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama by Eva Urban Pdf

This book examines theatre within the context of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, with reference to a wide variety of plays, theatre productions and community engagements within and across communities. The author clarifies both the nature of the social and political vision of a number of major contemporary Northern Irish dramatists and the manner in which this vision is embodied in text and in performance. The book identifies and celebrates a tradition of playwrights and drama practitioners who, to this day, challenge and question all Northern Irish ideologies and propose alternative paths. The author's analysis of a selection of Northern Irish plays, written and produced over the course of the last thirty years or so, illustrates the great variety of approaches to ideology in Northern Irish drama, while revealing a common approach to staging the conflict and the peace process, with a distinct emphasis on utopian performatives and the possibility of positive change.

Author : Laura McAtackney,Máirtín Ó Catháin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000957785

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The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace by Laura McAtackney,Máirtín Ó Catháin Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace is the first multi-authored volume to specifically address the many facets of the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict, colloquially known as the Troubles, and its subsequent peace process. This volume is rooted in opening space to address controversial subjects, answer key questions, and move beyond reductive analysis that reproduces a simplistic two community theses. The temporal span of individual chapters can reach back to the formation of the state of Northern Ireland, with many starting in the late 1960s, to include a range of individuals, collectives, organisations, understandings, and events, at least up to the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement in 1998. This volume has forefronted creative approaches in understanding conflict and allows for analysis and reflection on conflict and peace to continue through to the present day. With an extensive introduction, preface, and 45 individual chapters, this volume represents an ambitious, expansive, interdisciplinary engagement with the North of Ireland through society, conflict, and peace from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches. While allowing for rich historical explorations of high-level politics rooted in state documents and archives, this volume also allows for the intermingling of different sources that highlight the role of personal papers, memory, space, materials, and experience in understanding the complexities of both Northern Ireland as a people, place, and political entity.