Restorative Justice, Reconciliation, and Peacebuilding (Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199364877 ISBN 13: 9780199364879

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

All over the world, the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular approaches, individual versus structural justice, reconciliation versus retribution, and the harmonization of the sheer number of practices involved in repairing past harms. Progress towards resolving these dilemmas requires reforming institutions and practices but also clear thinking about basic questions: What is justice? And how is it related to the building of peace? The twin concepts of reconciliation and restorative justice, both involving the holistic restoration of right relationship, contain not only a compelling logic of justice but also great promise for resolving peacebuilding's tensions and for constructing and assessing its institutions and practices. This book furthers this potential by developing not only the core content of these concepts but also their implications for accountability, forgiveness, reparations, traditional practices, human rights, and international law.

About this title

About the Author

Jennifer J. Llewellyn is the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Review

"An original and powerful book. It is a valuable collection of essays documenting different ways of reweaving the warp and woof of torn societies through justice-based processes. Its most important contribution, however, is theoretical: a concept of justice that marries individual agency with the life-giving web of human relationships in a way that will benefit theorists and practitioners alike." --Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America Foundation

"This is an unusual time not because some societies experience massive violence and oppression, but because lawyers, theologians, politicians, and members of civil society fight for responses. In the hands of the scholars whose essays make up this book, projects of truth-telling, reconciliation, and restorative justice become peace-building and social repair -- but also objects of steady and critical inquiries meant to help societies and nations on the aftermath of conflict. Offering unflinching discussions of the 'transitional justice mafia,' the resources and limitations of religious traditions, punishment, amnesties, reparations, these essays offer needed illumination and analytic tools for those familiar with these issues and for those new to them." --Martha Minow, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199364877
• ISBN 13: 9780199364879
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Llewellyn Jennifer J.