Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing

No one can deny how September 11, 2001, has altered our understandings of "Peace" and "Justice" and "Civil Conflict." Those have become words with startling new life in our vocabularies. Yet "making" peace and "doing" justice must remain challenges that are among the highest callings of humanity-especially in a terror-heightened world. Nigel Biggar, Christian ethicist and editor of this now more than ever "must read" (

Nigel Biggar is professor of theology at the University of Leeds, where he directs the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Ethics, and Public Life

List of Tables

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Contributors

xi

Introduction

xv

PART I. Concepts

Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must We Choose?

3

(22)

Nigel Biggar

Where and When in Political Life Is Justice Served by Forgiveness?

25

(20)

Donald W. Shriver

Politics and Forgiveness

45

(20)

Jean Bethke Elshtain

The Philosophy and Practice of Dealing with the Past: Some Conceptual and Normative Issues

65

(22)

Tuomas Forsberg

PART II. Dimensions

Innovating Responses to the Past: Human Rights Institutions

87

(14)

Martha Minow

National and Community Reconciliation: Competing Agendas in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

101

(24)

Hugo Van Der Merwe

Putting the Past in Its Place: Issues of Victimhood and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland's Peace Process

125

(30)

Marie Smyth

Does the Truth Heal? A Psychological Perspective on Political Strategies for Dealing with the Legacy of Political Violence

155

(22)

Brandon Hamber

PART III. Cases

Passion, Constraint, Law, and Fortuna: The Human Rights Challenge to Chilean Democracy

177

(32)

Alexandra Barahona De Brito

War, Peace, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala

209

(26)

Rachel Sieder

Restorative Justice in Social Context: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

235

(16)

Charles Villa-Vicencio

Rwanda: Dealing with Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in the Context of Armed Conflict and Failed Political Transition

251

(36)

Stef Vandeginste

Northern Ireland: Burying the Hatchet, Not the Past

287

(44)

Terence McCaughey

PART IV. Conclusion

Conclusion

307

(18)

Nigel Biggar

Epilogue: Burying the Past after September 11

325

(6)

Nigel Biggar

Index

331

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