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Just and Unjust Peace - An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Paperback)
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Just and Unjust Peace - An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding
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Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award in Missions /
Global Affairs Winner of the Aldersgate Prize Honorable Mention
Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association International
Ethics Section Book Award 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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