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Book Description

This book aims to bridge the gap between what are generally referred to as ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to peacebuilding.

After the experience of a physical and psychological trauma, the period of individual healing and recovery is intertwined with political and social reconciliation. The prospects for social and political reconciliation are undermined when a ‘top-down’ approach is favoured over the ‘bottom-up strategy’- the prioritization of structural stability over societal well-being.

Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation explores the inextricable link between psychological recovery and socio-political reconciliation, and the political issues that dominate this relationship. Through an examination of the construction of social narratives about or for peace, the text offers a new perspective on peacebuilding, which challenges and questions the very nature of the dichotomy between ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, social psychology, political science and IR in general.

Table of Contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Peacebuilding, Memory and Reconciliation
  3. Series: Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Peacebuilding, healing, reconciliation
  10. Part I Conceptual issues
    1. 1 The post-conflict paradox: Engaging war, creating peace
    2. 2 A critique of “bottom-up” peacebuilding
  11. Part II Case Studies
    1. 3 Familial trauma in democratic Spain
    2. 4 Living to tell the story
    3. 5 Justice, healing and reconciliation in Cambodia
    4. 6 Exploring the role of apology in Cambodia’s reconciliation process
    5. 7 Governmental apologies and political reconciliation
    6. 8 Co-creating peace
    7. 9 Restorative moments
    8. 10 Towards peace and reconciliation after the Great War
    9. 11 Can history heal trauma?
    10. 12 Conclusion
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index
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