Peace and Reconciliation Processes

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ID23716998
AuthorsTimothy Seidel (0000-0002-2232-3682, American University), Mohammed Abu‐nimer (0000-0003-3363-3608, American University)
Year2015
Pages1-3
Publication date2015-12-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueWiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118663202.wberen148
OpenAlexW2520461874
ISBN9781118663202
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Within the larger framework of peace building, reconciliation processes aim to restore broken relationships so that a society can move from a divided past to a shared future, learning to live nonviolently with difference. Reconciliation processes involve personal, communal, institutional, and sociocultural initiatives in which community members across a society engage to restore a peaceful set of relationships with their enemies. They address painful histories of violence and victimhood, while also recognizing that the positive peace of reconciliation and psychosocial healing runs through justice. Reconciliation processes emerge from local cultural and traditional approaches, with local actors such as religious leaders playing a critical role in cultivating mass support and long‐term sustainability for peace agreements. Finally, integrating reconciliation mechanisms into peace processes is important for ensuring some level of postagreement political stability, underscoring the importance of community approval and the danger of neglecting relationships on the ground.

Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Set (abstract data type) · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Sustainability · Transitional justice · Ecology · Law · Peace and Human Rights Education · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance

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