In the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and
peace restored? Is it possible to find a universal standard that
will work for people of diverse and often conflicting religious,
cultural, and philosophical backgrounds? In Just and Unjust Peace,
Daniel Philpott offers an innovative and hopeful response to these
questions. He challenges the approach to peace-building that
dominates the United Nations, western governments, and the human
rights community. While he shares their commitments to human rights
and democracy, Philpott argues that these values alone cannot
redress the wounds caused by war, genocide, and dictatorship. Both
justice and the effective restoration of political order call for a
more holistic, restorative approach. Philpott answers that call by
proposing a form of political reconciliation that is deeply rooted
in three religious traditions--Christianity, Islam, and Judaism--as
well as the restorative justice movement. These traditions offer
the fullest expressions of the core concepts of justice, mercy, and
peace.By adapting these ancient concepts to modern constitutional
democracy and international norms, Philpott crafts an ethic that
has widespread appeal and offers real hope for the restoration of
justice in fractured communities. From the roots of these
traditions, Philpott develops six practices--building just
institutions and relations between states, acknowledgment,
reparations, restorative punishment, apology and, most important,
forgiveness--which he then applies to real cases, identifying how
each practice redresses a unique set of wounds. Focusing on places
as varied as Bosnia, Iraq, South Africa, Germany, Sierra Leone,
Timor-Leste, Chile and many others--and drawing upon the actual
experience of victims and perpetrators--Just and Unjust Peace
offers a fresh approach to the age-old problem of restoring justice
in the aftermath of widespread injustice.
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