Peacebuilding, Healing, Reconciliation

An Analysis of Unseen Connections for Peace

Bibliographic Data

ID12536737
AuthorsGeneviève Parent (0000-0003-3033-0492, Alpha Technologies (Canada), corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume18
Issue4
Pages379-395
Publication date2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Peacekeeping (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-3312 • E-ISSN: 1743-906X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13533312.2011.588385
OpenAlexW2041845632
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited12

This article explores the notions of ‘healing’ and ‘reconciliation’ as they are used in the literature on peacebuilding. It argues that these notions are used vaguely and that they are deployed to discriminate between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ approaches to peacebuilding. As such, they render invisible complex connections between the psycho-social processes associated with healing and the political processes associated with reconciliation. Numerous programmes and processes of peacebuilding are conceived upon the distinction between healing and reconciliation. The article examines the effects of this distinction and argues that where healing and reconciliation are disconnected, peacebuilding produces experiences of secondary victimization that undermine peace. The case of post-genocide Rwanda is used to support this argument

Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Genocide · Peacebuilding · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Medicine · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy

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