Reconciliation and Building a Sustainable Peace - Competing Worldviews in South Africa and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book explores how competing worldviews impact on intergroup relations and building a sustainable peace in culturally diverse societies. It raises the question of what happens in a culturally diverse society when competing values and ways of interpreting reality collide and what this means for peace-building and the goal of reconciliation. Moreover, it provides a valuable and needed contribution to how peace-building interventions can become more sustainable if tied into local values and embedded in a society's system of meaning-making. The book engages with questions relating to the extent transitional policies speak to universal values and individualist societies and the implications this might have for how they are implemented in collective societies with different values and forms of social organisation. It raises the question of cultural equality and transformation and whether or not this is something that needs to be addressed within peace-building theory. It argues that inculcating worldview into peace-building theory and practice is a vital part of restoring dignity and promoting healing among victims and formerly oppressed groups. This book, therefore, makes an important contribution to what is at best a partially researched topic by providing a deeper understanding of how identity and culture intersect with peace-building when seeking to build a sustainable peace.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
Release date:	February 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Cathy Bollaert
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	209
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-003654-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-003654-5
Barcode:	9783030036546

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