The Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe Between Conflict and Reconciliation |
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| Contribution by:
| Barash, Raisa
Feldman, Lily Gardner
Goda, Samuel
Bachmann, Klaus
Jonaszko, Jolanta
Kiss, Annamaria
Konkka, Olga
Korostelina, Karina V.
Leiner, Martin
Rojansky, Matthew
Sagy, Shifra
Telaku, Mimoza
Wezel, Katja |
| Editor:
| Barash, Raisa
Feldman, Lily Gardner
Goda, Samuel
Zempelburg, Andre |
| Series title: | Research in Peace and Reconciliation Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-525-56033-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2018 |
| Publisher: | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $114.00 |
Book Description:
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This volume examines the role of identity formation and stages of sequencing of the steps of reconciliation - which is an enduring rather than ad an ad hoc phenomenon. RIPAR 4 asks for both the challenges to it from the domestic and international systems and the actors involved, as well as for the role of history, memory and remembrance either as catalysts for or obstacles to reconciliation. The analyzing of the connection among the past, the present and the future in actual or...
More DescriptionThis volume examines the role of identity formation and stages of sequencing of the steps of reconciliation - which is an enduring rather than ad an ad hoc phenomenon. RIPAR 4 asks for both the challenges to it from the domestic and international systems and the actors involved, as well as for the role of history, memory and remembrance either as catalysts for or obstacles to reconciliation. The analyzing of the connection among the past, the present and the future in actual or prospective reconciliation embraces all these topics and questions.Influenced by the crisis in the former Sovjet Union following the March 2014 Russian annexation/integration of Crimea and the movement of Russian soldiers into Eastern Ukraine to aid Ukrainian separatists the essays in this volume were written in 2015. Reconciliation is a frequently ill-defined term. As an aspiration in this volume it encompasses three senses: an incipient, thin and minimal form amounting to passive, peaceful coexistence after enmity; a more elaborate, intermediate and engaged form that is captured by the term rapprochement; and a thick or fuller form denoting active friendship, empathy, trust, magnanimity and, ultimately, amity. Beyond the definitional goal, the volume addresses ten themes. Firstly, reconciliation is being questioned as a process and/ or a terminal condition. A view is made on the requirements for the transition from conflict to a reconciliatory process, and the obstacles to beginning a process of reconciliation. Its soft and hard expressions inter alia in emotional and political dimensions are also subject of the author's interest. The observations about conflict and cooperation offered in this volume wish to add significantly to the burgeoning literature of reconciliation. These essays demonstrate that we need a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives to grapple with conflict and to promote reconciliation.