Justice, Responsibility and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: MacLachlan, Alice. (Editor), Speight, Allen. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life ; 1
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Political science > Philosophy.; Religion (General).; Philosophy.; Political Philosophy.; Political Science, general.; Religious Studies.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5201-6

What are the moral obligations of participants and bystanders duringand in the wake of a conflict?� How have theoretical understandings of justice, peace and responsibility changed in the face of contemporary realities of war? Drawing on the work of leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, po...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, C.A. Speight and A. MacLachlan
• Part I: What is War? What is Peace?
• Truce! N. Eisikovits
• Peace-less Reconciliation, A. Biletzki.-� Heidegger and Gandhi on Conflict, G. Fried
• Basic Challenges for Governance in Emergencies, F. Tanguay-Renaud
• Part II: Framing Responsibilities, At Wars End: Clashing Visions and the Need for Reform, B. Orend
• Is there an obligation to rebuild? P. Robinson
• Political Reconciliation, Responsibility and Grudge-Informers, C. Murphy
• Part III: The Shape of Reconciliation
• Freedom in the Grounding of Transitional Justice,A. Wingo
• President Clintons Apology for Rwanda, L.Tirrell
• Government Apologies to Indigenous Peoples, A. MacLachlan
• The Expressive Burden of Reparations: Putting Meaning into Words, Money, and Things, M.U. Walker.