Clarifying the Past : Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies Paperback / softback
by Cira (Ulster University, Northern Ireland) Palli-Aspero
Part of the Routledge Approaches to History series
Paperback / softback
Description
Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions. The theoretical and methodological framework is complemented with an extensive empirical analysis of 27 historical commissions that operated in different social and political contexts from 1990s to the present.
The detailed examination of these cases gives a broad perspective into the potential capacities of historical commissions in different settings.
Although only sampling the most recent cases, this volume shows how the steady increase of the number of historical commissions indicates that we are not dealing with a marginal phenomenon.
The increased recognition of the potential of historical commissions to address the legacies of contested pasts and potential introduction of such commissions to transitional justice, makes this book highly relevant. This book has been written with the objective of deepening and broadening the existing knowledge on state-sponsored historical commissions.
Its intended audiences are scholars and practitioners in the fields of historical theory, public history, and historical dialogue, transitional justice, peace and conflict studies.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, 11 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2024
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- ISBN:9780367501020
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Pre-Order
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, 11 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/05/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367501020
