Reconciliation as Politics. Kjell-Ake Nordquist
Reconciliation as Politics
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Автор произведения: Kjell-Ake Nordquist
Серия: Church of Sweden Research Series
Жанр: Религия: прочее
Издательство: Ingram
isbn: 9781532600814
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Is «political reconciliation» a new tool for peace-building and justice–in peace processes and other complex social reconstruction efforts-after dictatorship or civil wars? Or is it just another term for established practices like negotiation, conflict resolution, and cooperation? Reconciliation processes after conflict and war can be very different in form and content. Kjell-Ake Nordquist analyzes the concept of reconciliation from a political perspective and outlines an understanding of its characteristics in a comparison with its closest «conceptual relatives»: forgiveness and conflict resolution. In addition, Nordquist specifically addresses the structural dimensions of reconciliation, and formulates an understanding of reconciliation that identifies a specific contribution to the settlement of political conflicts. In this way, political reconciliation has the potential to be an approach that, along with other activities, contributes to more complete and genuine peace processes.