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- catalog abstract ""The Politics of Memory brings together a group of scholars, policy-makers, justice workers and social activists to answer these questions. In a creative engagement with issues of human rights in relation to truth, healing and social justice, they look at how people rebuild broken communities and the tensions between reconciliation and social justice in post-conflict situations." "The book is structured round the themes of social justice, the nature of conflict, judicial accountability and the role of truth commissions. Opening with Wole Soyinka's exploration of 'that burden of memory that a continent seeks to exorcise through the strategy of reparations', the first part of the book addresses questions of social justice as both ends and means of healing and reconciliation. The contributors go on to look at the nature and dynamics of conflict, and then consider judicial accountability and the role of truth commissions as approaches to healing and social justice. The book concludes with a chapter on the pursuit of justice as an underlying cause of civil wars in Africa and elsewhere." "Exploring the cases of Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Nigeria, Latin America and the former Yugoslavia and including consideration of the gendered elements of conflict, this book is urgent reading for student and academics in peace and conflict and African Studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11903511.
- catalog contributor b11903512.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Exploring the cases of Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Nigeria, Latin America and the former Yugoslavia and including consideration of the gendered elements of conflict, this book is urgent reading for student and academics in peace and conflict and African Studies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The Politics of Memory brings together a group of scholars, policy-makers, justice workers and social activists to answer these questions. In a creative engagement with issues of human rights in relation to truth, healing and social justice, they look at how people rebuild broken communities and the tensions between reconciliation and social justice in post-conflict situations."".
- catalog description ""The book is structured round the themes of social justice, the nature of conflict, judicial accountability and the role of truth commissions. Opening with Wole Soyinka's exploration of 'that burden of memory that a continent seeks to exorcise through the strategy of reparations', the first part of the book addresses questions of social justice as both ends and means of healing and reconciliation. The contributors go on to look at the nature and dynamics of conflict, and then consider judicial accountability and the role of truth commissions as approaches to healing and social justice. The book concludes with a chapter on the pursuit of justice as an underlying cause of civil wars in Africa and elsewhere."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : facing truth, voicing justice / Ifi Amadiume and Abdullahi An-Naıʼim -- Memory, truth and healing / Wole Soyinka -- The politics of memory : Biafra and intellectual responsibility / Ifi Amadiume -- Biafran war literature and Africa's search for social justice / Akachi Ezeigbo -- Social movements revisited : mediation of contradictory roles / Abdullahi An-Naıʼim and Svetlana Peshkova -- Post-Biafran marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria / Nnaemeka Ikpeze -- Towards a social history of warfare and reconstruction : the Nigerian/Biafran case / Axel Harneit-Sievers and Sydney Emezue -- Latin American experiences of accountability / Juan E. Méndez -- Truth in a box : the limits of justice through judicial mechanisms / Julie Mertus -- Justice for women victims of violence : Rwanda after the 1994 genocide / Binaifer Nowrojee and Regan Ralph -- The truth according to the TRC / Mahmood Mamdani -- Conclusion : the cause of justice behind civil wars / Francis M. Deng.".
- catalog extent "xii, 207 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Politics of memory.".
- catalog identifier "1856498425 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "1856498433 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Politics of memory.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Zed Books,".
- catalog relation "Politics of memory.".
- catalog subject "323.1 21".
- catalog subject "Human rights.".
- catalog subject "JC571 .P642 2000".
- catalog subject "Reconciliation.".
- catalog subject "Social justice.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : facing truth, voicing justice / Ifi Amadiume and Abdullahi An-Naıʼim -- Memory, truth and healing / Wole Soyinka -- The politics of memory : Biafra and intellectual responsibility / Ifi Amadiume -- Biafran war literature and Africa's search for social justice / Akachi Ezeigbo -- Social movements revisited : mediation of contradictory roles / Abdullahi An-Naıʼim and Svetlana Peshkova -- Post-Biafran marginalization of the Igbo in Nigeria / Nnaemeka Ikpeze -- Towards a social history of warfare and reconstruction : the Nigerian/Biafran case / Axel Harneit-Sievers and Sydney Emezue -- Latin American experiences of accountability / Juan E. Méndez -- Truth in a box : the limits of justice through judicial mechanisms / Julie Mertus -- Justice for women victims of violence : Rwanda after the 1994 genocide / Binaifer Nowrojee and Regan Ralph -- The truth according to the TRC / Mahmood Mamdani -- Conclusion : the cause of justice behind civil wars / Francis M. Deng.".
- catalog title "The politics of memory : truth, healing, and social justice / edited by Ifi Amadiume and Abdullahi An-Naıʾim.".
- catalog type "text".