Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its
troubled political history - truth recovery and dealing with the
legacy of the past - yet the void in knowledge and the lack of
academic literature with regard to victims' rights is particularly
striking. This book, newly available in paperback, analyses truth
recovery as a fundamental aspect of the transition from political
violence to peace, democracy and stability in post-conflict
Northern Ireland. Kirk Simpson argues that it is essential for any
process of truth recovery in Northern Ireland to provide the
victims of political violence with the opportunity to express and
articulate their narratives of suffering within the context of
public dialogic processes. He outlines a unique and original model:
that victims of political violence should be enabled to engage in
meaningful truth recovery through a Habermasian process of public
democratic deliberation and communication involving direct dialogue
with the perpetrators of such violence. This process of
'communicative justice' is framed within Habermas's theory of
communicative action and can help to ensure that legitimate truth
recovery publicly acknowledges the trauma of victims and subjects
perpetrator narratives of political violence to critical scrutiny
and rational deconstruction. Crucially, the book aims to contribute
to the empowerment of victims in Northern Ireland by stimulating
constructive discussion and awareness of hitherto silenced
narratives of the conflict. This difficult and unsettling
interrogation and interpretation of the conflict from a
comparatively 'unknown perspective' is central to the prospects for
critically examining and mastering the past in Northern Ireland. --
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