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What does it mean to promote reconciliation in response to violent conflict? When do practices of reconciliation function to obfuscate past wrongs, silence victims, or neutralize political dissent? These are urgent questions, as institutions and policies designed to alleviate political conflict are currently being developed across the globe. Against the view that reconciliation entails social harmony and consensus, this volume offers an agonistic alternativeone that affirms dissensus and ongoing contestation. These essays explore, and powerfully unsettle, prevailing assumptions regarding the role of forgiveness, tolerance, healing, memorializing, and responsibility, as responses to past violence. Drawing on a dazzling array of theoretical resources, including thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Jean Amry, Walter Benjamin, and Walt Whitman, these essays are also grounded in, and informed by, specific cases and institutions. This collection is not only a magnificent work of political theory, but also a brilliant and timely innovation in scholarship on transitional justice.

Bronwyn Leebaw, Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

The authors of Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation bring the conceptual tools of agonistic democratic theory to the study of a range of hard cases of post-conflict reconciliation. The result is ground-breaking. They call into question the dominant approach of transitional justice and enable us to see these situations in a new and more complex light. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of both the theory and practice of reconciliation.

James Tully,Distinguished Professor,
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Theorizing Post-Conflict
Reconciliation

The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict.

This volume asks how many of the popular conclusions reached by transitional justice studies fall short, or worse, unwittingly perpetuate the very injustices they aim to suture. Though often well intentioned, these approaches generally resolve in an injunction to move on, to leave the painful past behind in the name of a conciliatory future. Through collective acts of apology and forgiveness, so the argument goes, reparation and restoration are imparted, and the writhing conflict of the past is substituted for by the overlapping consensus of community. And yet all too often, the authors of this study maintain, the work done in assuaging past discord serves to further debase and politically neutralize especially the victims of abuse in need of reconciliation and repair in the first place.

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from South Africa to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda and Australia, the authors argue for an alternative approach to post-conflict thought. In so doing, they find inspiration in the vision of politics rendered by new pluralist, new realist and especially agonistic political theory.

Featuring contributions from both up-and-coming and well-established scholars, this work is essential reading for all those with an interest in restorative justice, conflict resolution and peace studies.

Alexander Keller Hirsch is Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Northeastern University, and Research Fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, USA.

Interventions

Edited by: Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and
Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick

As Michel Foucault has famously stated, Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. In this spirit The Edkins-Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post- disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary.

Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, USA

The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics.

Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines, and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.

Critical Theorists and International Relations Edited by Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams Ethics as Foreign Policy Britain, the EU and the other Dan Bulley Universality, Ethics and International Relations A grammatical reading Vronique Pin-Fat

Insuring Security Biopolitics, security and risk Luis Lobo-Guerrero Foucault and International Relations New critical engagements Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Doug Stokes International Relations and Non Western Thought Imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity Edited by Robbie Shilliam

The Time of the City Politics, philosophy, and genre Michael J. Shapiro Governing Sustainable Development Partnership, protest and power at the World Summit Carl Death Madness in International Relations Psychology, security and the global governance of mental health Alison Howell Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt Geographies of the nomos Edited by Stephen Legg Politics of Urbanism Seeing like a city Warren Magnusson Beyond Biopolitics Theory, violence and horror in world politics Franois Debrix and Alexander D. Barder The Politics of Speed Capitalism, the state and war in an accelerating world Simon Glezos

Autobiographical International Relations I, IR Edited by Naeem Inayatullah War and Rape Law, memory and justice Nicola Henry Politics and the Art of Commemoration Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain Katherine Hite Indian Foreign Policy The politics of postcolonial identity Priya Chacko Politics of the Event Time, movement, becoming Tom Lundborg Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation Agonism, restitution and repair Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch

Theorizing Post-Conflict
Reconciliation

Agonism, restitution and repair

Edited by
Alexander Keller Hirsch

First published 2012
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