This book considers the problem of managing the unfinished business
of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence.
Truth Commissions are increasingly used to unearth the acts
committed by the various protagonists and to acknowledge the
suffering of their victims. This book uniquely focuses on the
conditions which predispose - or prevent - embarkation on a truth
recovery process, and the rationale for that process. There is, it
argues, no magic moment of 'readiness' for truth recovery: the
conditions are constructed by political 'willingness' rather than
spontaneously occurring.
Much of the literature on Northern Ireland's past provides
historical analyses of the conflict - Republican, state or Loyalist
violence - and is often (implicitly or explicitly) associated with
one or other of the partisans in the conflict. This book focuses on
the dynamic between the protagonists and how each of their
positions, in this case on truth recovery, combine to produce the
overall political status quo in Northern Ireland. As the society
struggles to move forward, Marie Breen Smyth considers whether the
entrenched positions of some, and the failure understand the views
of others, can be shifted by a societal revisiting and
re-evaluation of the past.
Truth Recovery and Justice after Conflict arises from a decade's
writing and research with both victims and those close to the armed
groups in Northern Ireland. It is also informed by the author's
work in South Africa, West Africa, Israel and the Occupied
Palestinian Territories. It will be of great interest to students
and researchers in politics, international relations, peace studies
and law.
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